File No. 165.105/982
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received 2.30 p. m.]
4420. As I was on the point of presenting your 3381 [3380], received here June 1, I received the following note dated June 2:
I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of the memorandum which your excellency communicated to this Department on May 26 relating to the shipment of German dyestuffs to the United States, and beg leave in reply to point out that during the negotiations which took place last year no mention whatever was made either of 15,000 tons of materials nor of $5,000,000 and I much regret that the offer made in April 1915, not having been taken advantage of, must be considered to [have] lapsed as has already been intimated to the United States Government through His Majesty’s Ambassador at Washington.
Under the circumstances I will await your further instructions before taking the matter up further with the Foreign Office.