File No. 763.72111N39/72
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 1.55 p.m.]
7832. Your 5895, November 24, 3 p.m. Lord Robert Cecil, in charge Foreign Office during Balfour’s absence in Paris, informs me that his Government has no objection to such a declaration by Government of the United States, but he thinks it better that all principal Allied powers should make such a declaration at same time if any make it. A declaration by one great power might suggest suspicion that others were not willing to make declaration. He declared the British Government quite willing to make declaration and he expressed hope that the French would also.