Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 2, The World War

File No. 763.72114A/88

The Ambassador in Spain ( Willard ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

San Sebastian , August 10, 1918 , (?) a.m.
[Received August 11, 2.05 p.m.]

1659. Department’s 1126, May 15, 4 p.m.¹ German Government has asked Spanish Government to inform the United States that it suggests that the proposed conference at Berne dealing with question of civil and military prisoners take place the middle of September. German Foreign Office at the same time declares its intention to include in the program of the conference certain questions relative to Germans living abroad, especially in China and Central America.²

Willard

1. Ante, p. 78.
2. Re China, see Foreign Relations, 1917, Supplement 2, vol. I, pp. 703 et seq., and 1918, Supplement 1, vol. I, pp. 624 et seq.; re Central America, see “Enemy Aliens in Panama, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic: Recommendations of the United States,” post, pp. 232–244.