Office of the Historian

103.96/1768: Telegram

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

London , December 20, 1918.
[Received December 20—12:48 p.m.]

4772. War Trade Board [from Sheldon]: No. 2140. For McCormick. Refer your 1859, Department’s 3470, December 17, [Page 766] British, French and Italian representatives on A.B.C. are submitting urgent statement of their position and ask you to withhold action proposed in last sentence of your telegram until you receive their statement which is being telegraphed today.

Davis