Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 493.11/366.

The Secretary of State to the American Minister.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 31, 1912.

Although there is some question as to whether the Department has the authority to sanction the postponement of the indemnity payments, if in the opinion of a majority of the ministers interested postponement should prove unavoidable it is, under the present circumstances, extremely unlikely that this Government will demand immediate payment.

Knox.