Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1917, Supplement 2, The World War, Volume I

File No. 763.72/6769a

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page)³

[Telegram]

Washington, September 7, 1917, 8 p.m.

5394. For your information. Mr. Franklin-Bouillon of the French Chamber of Deputies is in Washington in the interests of participation by the American Congress in the Inter-Allied Parliamentary Union. He has been advised that, after very careful consideration, the project of American participation at this time does not meet with the favor of this Government.

Lansing

3. The same, on the same date, to the Ambassador in France, No. 2615.