Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 1, The World War

File No. 763.72/3850

The Minister in Paraguay ( Mooney) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

Asuncion, April 14, 1917, 5 p.m.
[Received April 15, 5.30 a.m.]

The Paraguayan Minister for Foreign Affairs, in reply to my advice of a state of war between the United States and Germany, says in part as follows: “It is my duty to make known to you that Paraguay and its Government in these moments accompanies the United States and its Government with the most lively sympathy.”

Copy of reply by mail accompanied by translation.¹

Mooney

1. Not printed.