File No. 611.419/88
The Ambassador in Great Britain, ( Page ) to the Secretary of State
London , December 11, 1914, 4 p.m.
[Received 6 p.m.]
[Telegram]
1240. My 1199, December 5 [6, 7 p.m.]. I suggest for your consideration, if you accept proposed working arrangement, that your incorporate in it the stipulation that the British Government shall promptly inform us of the detention of every American ship or cargo and give the specified reason for the detention in every case.
The difficulty of getting this information with promptness and in [some] cases the difficulty of getting it at all, is the most serious and annoying single fact perhaps of all these troubles. Prompt and full information would in most cases open the way to an adjustment.