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

File No. 711.5914/48

Minister Egan to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Copenhagen, February 23, 1916, 1 p.m.

220. Referring to my cable of February 17, 1 p.m. Minister of Foreign Affairs pressing urgently for answer to West Indies proposition. He fears that our tension with Germany may delay matters. France ceded all rights to Saint Croix in 1868.

Egan