Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 814.51/211.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires at London.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, January 14, 1913.

Asks to be informed how the Foreign Office received his representations and whether it agrees to confer with Cooper. The present opportunity to secure the rehabilitation of the finances of Guatemala, which appear now to depend almost wholly upon the British Foreign Office, seems to be better than any likely to arise in the near future and the Department most earnestly hopes that it will not be lost through British insistence upon arbitration.

Knox.