Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918

File No. 818.00/340

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Panama ( Price)

[Telegram]

Washington, March 4, 1918, 4 p.m.

Department’s December 29, 6 p.m.¹ If Volio desires to leave Panama as a private citizen and not as leader of an armed expedition. Department cannot recommend that he be held.

Polk

1. Quoted in Department’s telegram of January 4, 1918, ante, p. 230.