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

File No. 812.00/15190.

The Secretary of State ad interim to the Brazilian Minister to Mexico.

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, June 11, 1915—4 p.m.

770. Your 623, June 10, 11 a.m. Discreetly impress upon authorities in control that any harsh measures of reprisal would create a most unfavorable impression abroad, and might, by adding to the acuteness of the political situation, retard the efforts to extend measures of relief to the destitute.

Robert Lansing.