File No. 763.72112/1551
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5.35 p. m.]
2775. My 2759, 6th. I have to-day received following note from Foreign Office:
With reference to the memorandum which your excellency was good enough to communicate to this Department on the 4th instant relative to the exportation to the United States of goods of enemy origin through Holland I have the honour to state that the matter is under consideration in communication with the French Government.
No particular class of goods of enemy origin has been singled out for special treatment.
Claims received through lawyers are treated in a precisely similar manner to those received direct from the applicants themselves, and no discrimination in favor of the former has been shown. I need not assure your excellency that applications put forward through the State Department at Washington, will be carefully considered and dealt with as expeditiously as the circumstances of the case allow.