The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page )

[Telegram]

4144. Your 5271, December 5, 5 p. m. Department has never understood that arrangements contained in your 4755,3 August 22, or 5076,1 October 26, were intended to supplant assurances contained in [Page 522] your 4661,1 August 5, as to tobacco on high seas or loaded and then awaiting shipment. So inform Foreign Office and make vigorous representations as instructed in Department’s 4110,2 December 1.

Lansing
  1. Ante, p. 512.
  2. Ante, p. 519.
  3. Ante, p. 512.
  4. Ante, p. 520.