File No. 763.72112/500
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
American Embassy,
London, December 21, 1914, 3 p.m.
[Received 7:15 p.m.]
London, December 21, 1914, 3 p.m.
[Received 7:15 p.m.]
[Telegram]
1308. In conference with interpreter [representative] of the Danish Government the following questions have come up:
- 1.
- Is there any probability that meat packers, copper merchants, and other American exporters would agree to refrain from exporting to neutral countries for consumption in neutral countries a larger amount of goods than statistics show were normally imported into those countries during a corresponding period before the war began?
- 2.
- Would the United States object if other neutral countries should each appoint a trustee to which all imports for home consumption should be consigned and should prohibit imports for home consumption not consigned to this trustee?
These questions come up also in conversation with representatives of other neutral countries. I ask some expression of opinion; if you think it wise, to give it only for my own information and not to be divulged even as a personal opinion to anyone.
American Ambassador