Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 838.00/1485

The Secretary of State to Chargé Mayer

No. 147

Department of State,
Washington, October 4, 1917.

Sir: The Department has received your No. 167 of the 7th ultimo in which you enclose a copy of a memorandum handed to you by Rear Admiral Knapp upon the subject of the relations between treaty officials of the Haitian Government.

The Department approves Admiral Knapp’s memorandum and concurs in the views which he has expressed therein.

Copies of your despatch and its enclosure have been forwarded to the Secretary of the Navy with this Department’s comment thereon as above.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing