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

File No. 711.5914/79

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American Legation,
Copenhagen, August 7, 1916, 5 p.m.

289. Referring to the Legation’s number 287, August 7, 3 p.m. Foreign Office informs me that first publicity came to Copenhagen in a despatch from Ambassador Jusserand to Bapst, French Minister here. Bapst is the only one of my colleagues who openly finds our policy of buying Danish West Indies objectionable. He tells Foreign Office that it may lead to buying of Martinique.

Egan