File No. 893.51/812.

The American Ambassador to Great Britain to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Your March 19, 8 p.m., which I read to Langley, Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. He replied that Belgian Minister in London had already informally approached Foreign Office in the matter, and had been answered in almost precisely the same language used in your proposed reply to the Belgian Minister at Washington.

Reid.