File No. 763.72112/3379
The Commercial Adviser of the British Embassy (Crawford) to the Acting Foreign Trade Adviser of the Department of State (Letcher)
My Dear Mr. Letcher: In reply to your letter of December 9, the only case we could discover in which Mr. Gade is interested was an application made for letter of assurance to the Trade Department on July 17. This letter was issued on July 26. Four months later, namely on November 20, we were advised that the letter had not been used and we were asked to issue a fresh one to replace it. This was issued on November 27.
I think that any suggestions that Mr. Gade may have to offer would be best made through the Norwegian Financial Department, Christiania.
Yours very truly,
[For the letter from the Secretary of State to Mr. Carl S. Stern, December 15, 1916, inviting him to submit the facts regarding his complaint of difficulty in obtaining letters of assurance, “with a view to taking up the matter unofficially with the British Embassy at this capital,” see ante, page 489.]