File No. 838.51/371.

Minister Blanchard to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

Your December 4, 11 a.m., only received to-day. No Minister of Foreign Affairs. Unable so far to obtain an interview with the President. Most urgently request earliest possible instruction solicited [Page 365] in my December 1, 9 a.m., and December 2, 3 p.m., as to conditions for recognition of Theodore. Cable still interrupted.

Blanchard
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