Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1914, Supplement, The World War

File No. 665.11251/37

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State

American Embassy,
London, December 22, 1914, 7 p.m.
[Received December 23, 8 a.m.]

[Telegram]

1319. Your 776, December 18.¹ Sir Edward Grey informs me that his understanding is that Italy does not prohibit export of cotton, unless it be perhaps because of consignment to order, and that the Italian Government knows that Great Britain will stop no ship because of cotton and no cargo of cotton. When attention was called to the statement that American cotton was stopped while Egyptian was permitted to go, he denied its accuracy, and said that he had had an Egyptian complaint that Egyptian cotton was stopped and American was permitted to go, which also he denied.

American Ambassador

1. Not printed.