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

File No. 711.21/370

The Secretary of State to Chargé Belden

No. 146

Department of State,
Washington, May 3, 1917.

Sir: The Department has received your No. 397 of March 10 last in which you enclosed copies of your correspondence with the Colombian Foreign Office regarding the question of the pending treaty between the United States and Colombia. You add that before writing the note, you communicated the Department’s instructions in the matter orally to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and that he requested you to send a note to him which he might give to the press.

Your action in the matter is approved.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing