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

File No. 711.5914/44

Minister Egan to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Copenhagen , January 8, 1916, 4 p.m.

207. Referring to my number 203, December 24, 4 p.m. Probably our last opportunity for purchase of Danish West Indies. If Germany is defeated she will need Denmark, if she conquers she will dominate Scandinavia. Danish Government frightened by increasing expenditures, needs money.

Egan