Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 1, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72119/1146a

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in the Netherlands ( Garrett )

[Telegram]

Washington , January 11, 1918, 5 p.m.

907. Please endeavor to obtain from the same source which supplied comments at end of your cablegram 1656 of November 19, 1917,¹ and illuminating statement enclosed with mail despatch 334 of November 27,² an account of the reaction of the German Liberals to the President’s statement of peace terms. Reply by cable.

Polk

1. Kurt Hahn, German Liberal leader; see Foreign Relations, 1917, Supplement 2, vol. I, pp. 311–316.
2. Not printed.