Letter

DAVIS, Acting Secretary to E. B. Washburne stands for Elihu Benjamin Washburne., August 16, 1870

[Telegram.]

Mr. Davis to Mr. E. B. Washburne.

Your reply to Gramont’s notice of expulsion of Germans is fully approved. You were notified yesterday that Prussia grants credit. Do what you can consistently with public law and our position as a neutral, who has assumed the protection of German residents in France, to mitigate the severity of the order for their expulsion.

DAVIS, Acting Secretary.
Notes
1. No. 23.
Sources
FRUS u2014 Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr View original source ↗
U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress with the Annual Message of the Pr.