Office of the Historian

File No. 165.102/857

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

[Telegram]
London, February 25, 1916, 2 p. m.
[Received 8 p. m.]

3850. Your 2915, February 21, 9 p. m. I have unofficially approached Foreign Office and requested permit. They state that they do not issue actual permits in London but give orders to the Consul General at Rotterdam to issue permit upon the application of shippers when goods reach Rotterdam. They consider that their undertaking not to interfere with shipment of dyes to the United States as expressed in their note of January 28, cabled to the Department in my 3668 of January 31 [29]1 is the same as permit.

American Embassy
  1. Not printed; see the Ambassador’s despatch No. 2967, January 31, ante, p. 551.↩