File No. 763.72119/859
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Belgium ( Whitlock)
[Telegram]
Washington,
September 28, 1917, 6 p.m.
285. Your No. 93, September 27, 9 p.m. It would serve a highly useful purpose if you could obtain permission for the Department to publish this statement of De Broqueville. The Department assumes that the “postscript” refers to a report from Berne given out by the wireless press September 25 stating that Germany agreed to evacuate Belgium on certain conditions. This report said that there was a verbal communication from Kühlmann to the Papal Nuncio at Munich.
Polk