Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 893.51/1835

The Secretary of State to Minister Reinsch

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, November 24, 1917, 2 p.m.

Your November 20, 7 p.m. The Department on November 22 instructed the Embassies at London and Paris to urge that British and French Groups participate in the immediate advance of 2,000,000 pounds. It was suggested that if this should be done the American Group might later if desired arrange to carry temporarily the future participation of British and French Groups.

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