File No. 763.72119/10428

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

[Telegram]

3834. Have best reason to believe Germany will welcome mediation of presentments [President?] and any steps he may take looking to peace. Colonel House will be very welcome here.

Gerard

[For the Chancellor’s statement of his desire that the President should take up the question of peace, made after a conversation between the Ambassador and the Emperor, see telegram No. 3839, May 3, 1916, received May 4, from the Ambassador in Germany, post, page 255.]