Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 811f.812/756a.

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of Austria-Hungary.

Department of State,
Washington, February 2, 1915.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: The President of the United States regrets exceedingly that because of the stress of public business, he will be unable to go to Panama in March next, and that in consequence, the formal opening of the Panama Canal has been postponed.

I am [etc.]

W. J. Bryan.