File No. 763.72119/55a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany ( Gerard )

[Telegram]

1542. The S. S. Noordam of the Holland-America Line sailed from Hoboken April 13 for Holland. It is carrying a delegation of forty-two prominent American women, of whom Jane Addams is the head, who are en route for a conference at The Hague. It takes the ship about ten days to make the trip. Please bring this to the attention of the Foreign Office. This is done as a precaution in order to reduce to a minimum the danger of the ship’s being mistaken for a belligerent vessel.

Bryan