Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 511.4A1/1480.

Delegate Van Dyke to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

The Hague, June 20, 1914.

Germany and Portugal decline to put the Convention into effect until Turkey, Greece and Serbia come in; Great Britain will wait for Germany. Yesterday’s meeting adjourned till Monday. May we agree to put the Convention into effect with a limited number of Powers?

Van Dyke

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