File No. 841.731/139
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
London, December 17, 1914.
[Received December 18, 8 a.m.]
[Telegram]
Your 771, December 16, and 773, December 16,1 and my 1245, December 11. In that conference I asked the censor, as I had previously asked Sir Edward Grey, if he would not inform sender when his telegram was stopped. He replied that this would prevent him from finding out whether a suspected man was working [Page 528] a concealed cable and defeat the whole purpose of the censorship. I asked him next if he would not show me the stopped cablegrams; he replied that that would be illegal. I asked next if he would not inform me of the stopped telegrams; this he has not promised to do. As I receive this I will make the best use of it possible to straighten out difficulties. As previously reported I have taken the subject up also with the Danish and Swiss ministers and Italian and Spanish ambassadors. The Swiss Minister and I [at] once made joint complaint.
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