The U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Walter Hines Page, telegrammed Secretary Lansing on this day about the British response to the recent German peace feeler.
London, December 19, 1916, 6 p. m.
5343. Your circular December 16, 5 p. m.Lord Robert Cecil
has just informed me that the British Government will decline the
German proposal to discuss peace because it contains no concrete terms
with which such a discussion might begin and for other reasons; and that
the Prime Minister will set forth the Government’s position in full in
the speech which he is now delivering in the House of Commons.
I will telegraph the text of what the Prime Minister says at the earliest hour possible.
Lord Robert
informed me that the British Government had requested the French
Government to draw up the reply of the Allies to the note of the Central
powers.
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