File No. 763.72/8248
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page ) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 21.]
Sir: I have the honor to report to you that the Ministers accredited to this Government from Greece, Serbia, and Roumania have called upon me and informally represented to me the harm to the Allied cause that, in their opinion, the Minister of Bulgaria to [Page 477] the United States is doing by his propaganda, and they express the hope that the United States might see fit to declare war against Bulgaria. I reminded them that this was not the regular channel even of conveying information to our Government; that such representations—if their Governments wished to make them—ought to be through their own Ministers. To this they readily agreed but hoped that an informal statement of their case made to me would not be considered an impertinence.
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