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

File No. 837.00/1173

The Secretary of State to Minister Gonzales

No. 302

Department of State,
Washington, March 9, 1917.

Sir: The Department has received your No. 422 of the 28th ultimo in which you enclose a translation of a letter addressed to you by General José Miguel Gómez, styled President of the Liberal Directory and General Commanding the Constitutional Army.

It appears to the Department that you need not reply to General Gómez’s letter.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Frank L. Polk