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

File No. 763.72/13319

The Minister in Denmark ( Egan) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Copenhagen, October 23, 1917, 1 p.m.
[Received October 24, 3 a.m.]

1464. During a conversation with an official Austrian temporarily in Copenhagen, I asked: “Why do you not surrender, then also food troubles would come to an end?” Instead of receiving the suggestion with disdain he replied simply: “We cannot surrender. The Italians want Trieste and Fiume and the entire littoral to cut us off from the sea, to which we could never consent.”

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