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

File No. 813.00/883a

The Secretary of State to Ambassador Fletcher

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, September 6, 1917, 3 p.m.

431. This Government has been asked by Salvador to send representatives to a conference of Central American States to consider renewing Treaty of Washington of 1907.

Discreetly ascertain and telegraph whether Mexican Government has been asked to be represented at conference, and, if so, what Mexico’s attitude will be.

Lansing