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

File No. 812.00/14552.

The Secretary of State to the Spanish Ambassador.¹⁵

Department of State,
Washington, March 11, 1915.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: I enclose herewith, for your information, a copy of a telegram¹⁶ from Mr. John R. Silliman, the Department’s special representative at Vera Cruz, Mexico, in regard to an intimation given by General Venustiano Carranza that he does not understand the Department’s position in making representations in behalf of other nationals who have their own representatives at Vera Cruz.

I am [etc.]

W. J. Bryan.

15. The same to the Ambassadors of Russia, France, Germany and Great Britain.
16. Of March 10, 4 p.m.