Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 812.63/380

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Fletcher

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, February 28, 1917, 4 p.m.

16. Department views with satisfaction assurances given by Minister for Foreign Affairs that it is not the intention to confiscate American properties under decrees requiring resumption of work in mines.

Lansing