File No. 711.38/107
Secretary of Embassy Davis to the Secretary of State
London, November 3, 1916, 5 p.m.
Your November 2, 7 p.m. The statement made by Ménos is wholly without foundation. I entered into no agreement, either orally or in writing, with respect to the interpretation of Article II, or any other article of Haitian treaty. On the contrary I made a general statement to Minister of Foreign Relations, when the question of interpretation of another article arose, that every article of the treaty must stand on the ordinary meaning of the English text, and with the particular object of guarding against such contingency as has now arisen, I took occasion to make such statement to Minister of Foreign Relations in the presence of Lieutenant E. G. Oberlin.