EJ                                 London
This telegram must be
closely paraphrased be-                 Dated December 19, 1914
fore being communicated
to anyone. (B)                     Rec'd. 7:58 a.m., 20th
 
Secretary of State,
     
     Washington
 
 
     RUSH.
 
     6148, December 19, midnight.  (SECTION SEVEN)
     The strategical problems have to be considered in the light of the Germans either reaching
the great oil supplies through the Caucasus or failing to do so.  In the latter event the German oil
situation will quite possibly become serious and the staging of a great offensive through Turkey
unlikely.
     In the former event such an offensive in the spring would appear probably and it is
imperative that the Allies' plans to meet it should be fully prepared and coordinated.
     In addition to the coordination of the Allies' plans for the prosecution of the war militarily
using the word in its widest insignificance it is essential that the Allies' plans for the conduct of
the war in the political sphere should also be coordinated.
     To Hitler's "new order in Europe" and Japan's "Asian co-prosperity" we must put
forward in clear terms