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

File No. 812.00/7011.

The Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington, April 5, 1913.

171. The Department assumes that such action as you have taken on your own initiative in regard to General Angeles, as reported in your April 4, 1 p.m., is based solely on humanitarian grounds and is entirely informal and unofficial.

Bryan.