Office of the Historian
  1. Home
  2. Historical Documents
  3. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 1, The World War
  4. Document 5

File No. 763.72/3121

The Minister in Greece ( Droppers ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Athens , January 9, 1917, 9 a.m.
[Received January 10, 8 a.m.]

219. My telegram No. 210 [211], December 30.1 Greek Government has submitted preliminary reply conciliatory in tone but indefinite. Memorandum insists upon necessity of effective assurances against encroachments, provisions for mixed commissions of inquiry associated with question of reparation. Since establishment blockade Provisional Government has seized several islands.

Droppers
  1. Foreign Relations, 1916, Supplement, p. 127.↩