Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1916, Supplement, The World War

File No. 763.72119/227

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

[Telegram]

London, December 20, 1916, 6 p. m.
[Received 7 p. m.]

5352. Your circular 18th¹ presented to Lord Robert Cecil, Colonial [and Acting?] Foreign Secretary, precisely as instructed. He remarked that obviously he could now make no comment; but his interest in it was great and I repeated and emphasized the disinterested earnestness of the President.

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1. Ante, p. 97.