Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 761.94/106

The Acting Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, July 24, 1916, 6 p.m.

Last paragraph your July 17, 7 p.m. Department assumes that no American rights in Manchuria are impaired, but it awaits more definite information regarding full scope and intent of treaty before giving opinion whether favored nation clause could be invoked if occasion should arise.

Polk