Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 711.0012/462

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
London, August 15, 1914.
[Received 9 p.m.]

[Telegram]

376. Yours August 15 [14] about treaty cannot secure authoritative answer till Monday or Tuesday when I will inform you definitely. I am sure that war has not changed disposition of the British Government but I fear it has put insuperable physical difficulties in the way of signing treaty before Congress adjourns.

American Ambassador