File No. 763.72112/2371
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received 5.10 p. m.]
4006. I have again asked Sir Edward Grey when I may expect his answer to my long note of November 5 about the blockade. He expressed regret that the necessary discussion of the answer with the French Government had unavoidably taken so long a time, and he assured me that now only one point of difference between these two Governments remained to be settled. I have privately heard a rumor that the French wished to make the reply more emphatic and harsher in substance than the English trade are willing to agree to.