File No. 611.419/262
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
No. 1056]
London,
March 15, 1915.
[Received March 29.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the
receipt of the Department’s instructions No. 544 of January 27
last,1 by which I was
directed to bring to the attention of the British Government authorities
a copy of a letter dated January 19, 1915, with its enclosures, from the
United States Steel Products Company, stating that they had made no sale
of manganese to Germany, and in reply beg to transmit herewith a copy of
a note, with its enclosures,2 which I have received from Sir Edward Grey in reply to my
representations in the premises.
I have [etc.]
[Enclosure]
The British Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs (Grey) to the
American Ambassador (Page)
No. 21743/15]
Sir E. Grey presents his
compliments to the United States Ambassador, and in reply to his
excellency’s note of the 22d ultimo relative to the issue of
[Page 668]
licences for the supply of
manganese to the United States Steel Products Company, has the
honour to inform his excellency that his note of December 12 last
stating that further licences would not be issued was based on
information, received from reliable sources, that the three
companies mentioned in that note had exported manganese either
directly or indirectly to Germany during the latter part of last
year. In view of the paramount necessity, for military reasons, of
preventing as far as possible the importation of manganese into
Germany, it was therefore considered necessary to restrict the issue
of licences.
In view, however, of Mr. Page’s note under reply, Sir
E. Grey is happy to state that no difficulty will
ensue in future with regard to the supply of ferro-manganese to the
United States Steel Products Company or the Carnegie Steel
Corporation, subject of course to the requirements of this country,
if these companies respectively will sign the guarantee forms which
have now been prepared for shipments of ferro-manganese to the
United States in each case in which permission is required.
A copy of the guarantee form in question is enclosed for his
excellency’s information.
[Subenclosure]
Guarantee
To (a)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
In consideration of your consenting to the delivery to us of (b)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ tons of (c)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ from (d)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ we (e)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ hereby give you the
following undertaking, which shall remain in force so long as the
present war continues:
- 1.
- We will not export from the United States any of the said
(c)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or any
other (c)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
which is now or at any other time in our possession, whether
the same has been obtained from the British Possessions or
elsewhere.
- 2.
- The said (c)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
will be consumed in our own factories in the United
States.
- 3.
- We will not export from the United States any steel in the
manufacture of which the said (c)_ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ has been employed to any place in Europe
other than the United Kingdom, France, or Russia.
- 4.
- We will not sell to any person in the United States any
steel in the manufacture of which the said (c)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ has been
employed without obtaining from him a written undertaking
that the same is not to be exported from the United States,
and satisfying ourselves that he will carry out such
undertaking.
- 5.
- We will give notice to His Britannic Majesty’s
Consul-General at New York of any shipment of (f)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ or steel in
the manufacture of which the said (c)_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ has been employed to any
foreign destination elsewhere than in Europe.
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