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File No. 763.72119/153

The Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Berne , June 7, 1916, 6 p. m.
[Received June 8, 10.20 a. m.]

369. For the President and Secretary of State: Responding to a question before the Commission of Neutrality, Federal Counselor Hoffmann, Swiss Minister for Foreign Affairs, answered that the Swiss Government considered that the pressure in favor of peace was quite premature. The neutral powers decline to participate in the movement at this time, he stated. Swiss Minister for Foreign Affairs declared this afternoon that it would not be advisable for Switzerland to act now.

Stovall