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

File No. 818.00/143

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American Legation,
San José, May 4, 1917, 5 p.m.

Referring to the Legation’s telegram of April 30, noon. Vote on Senate reversed and adopted almost unanimously today on orders from Tinoco, inspired by belief, for which Legation not responsible that such action will help obtain recognition. However objections enumerated in telegram referred to one and two cannot and objections three and four not proposed to be remedied.

Johnson