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. 893.51/776.

The American Ambassador to Germany to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Berlin, February 28, 1912—1 p.m.

The German Government has reached our own conclusion that common action even in the matter of finance is the wisest policy for the concerned powers to pursue for the protection of the common interests in China, and consequently has expressed its willingness to have Russia and Japan admitted into the financial group.

Leishman.