Office of the Historian

File No. 841.00/20

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)

[Telegram]
Washington, August 2, 1916, 1 p. m. 1

3606. Please transmit textually to Foreign Office the following resolution:

In the Senate of the United States, July 29, 1916:

Resolved, That the Senate expresses the hope that the British Government may exercise clemency in the treatment of Irish political prisoners; and that the President be requested to transmit this resolution to that Government.

Polk
  1. The resolution quoted below was received from the White House, August 2, 1916, after 11. a. m.↩