File No. 763.72112/2865b
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Great Britain (Laughlin)
Washington,
August 18, 1916, 4 p. m.
[Telegram]
3703. In connection with taking up individual cases of American firms on the black list, it might be well to state that our action in taking up these individual cases is not to be regarded as an admission of the correctness of Great Britain’s course, but were made to show under the British rules that these particular persons should not be on the list.
Lansing