File No. 767.70/107.
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Washington, November 13, 1912
Your November 11. See telegram of October 4, 5 p.m., 1911,1 by which you were instructed that it would be desirable to avert any formal request for the mediation of the United States between Turkey and Italy. I refer you to this telegram for guidance in the present situation and may add that to me it seems impossible that this Government should undertake, with any hope of service to the belligerents or of credit to itself, to mediate or to offer its good offices for the adjustment of questions that have so long been the particular solicitude of European diplomacy, questions that once more seem impossible of such a settlement as would satisfy the irreconcilable claims of the several interested Powers, who, even in the face of the grave risks of the present crisis, have found themselves unable to relinquish them.
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