Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 367.116/248

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Morgenthau)

Department of State,
Washington, December 15, 1914.

[Telegram]

151. Your 123, December 5, 8 p.m. Please continue to protest to Turkish Government against any change or disregard of the original privileges or capitulations under which American institutions, both religious and educational, were established, pointing out that this Government can not accept any modification of capitulations without previous agreement.

Bryan