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

File No. 812.00/9259.

The American Ambassador to Germany to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

American Embassy,
Berlin, October 17, 1913.

Your October 14, 7 p.m. The Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs says that Germany has no political interests in the question; that if we intervene there will be, he fears, a long and cruel war; that if we do not recognize Huerta he will fall, with resultant anarchy.

Gerard.