Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 2, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72119/859

The Minister in Belgium ( Whitlock) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Havre, September 27, 1917, 9 p.m.
[Received September 28, 7.35 a.m.]

93. De Broqueville told me this afternoon that the Belgian Government considers as insolence the postscript to the German reply to the Pope and said that it adds insult to injury.

Whitlock