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. 893.51/932.

The American Ambassador to Great Britain to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Extract.—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
London, June 10, 1912.

Langley says that the British Government will admit the special rights of Russia and Japan in the regions of Manchuria and Mongolia, but would at the same time affirm the policy of the open door. Langley will at once communicate to Sir Edward Grey your suggestion as to reaching an understanding before the meeting of the 15th.

Reid.