File No. 711.5914/151
Minister Egan to the Secretary of State
Copenhagen, September 29, 1916, 6 p.m.
356. Foreign Minister informs me that he has cabled following message to Washington:
The crisis has now been solved through an understanding among the three political parties that one representative of each of the three parties be included in the Cabinet as Ministers without portfolios and further that the proposal of the Government as to the proceedings of the Committee in the West Indian [Page 681] question with a referendum to follow has been accepted. The time limit set for the work of the possible committee is six weeks and the referendum shall take place within fourteen days after the committee has submitted its resolution. However in the present circumstances I do not consider it out of the question that the time limit for the work of the committee be shortened.