File No. 165.102/800
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 7.30 p. m.]
3586. Your 2644, December 28, and 2709, January 13. I am now in receipt of note from Foreign Office dated January 14 respecting shipment of dyestuffs, which states that Foreign Office desires to point out that when first application was received for permission to bring dyes to the United States, British Government were explicitly assured that cargoes of dyestuffs were paid for by the two cotton cargoes which had already proceeded to Germany and that no question of any further payment would or could arise. British Government fails to understand in what manner the situation so represented to them, on the strength of which they agreed to export the dyes, is now supposed to have changed. Before considering fresh proposal it would be necessary in any case for British Government to know to whom it is suggested that the dyes should be consigned and what is the sum which the American Government now proposes to pay to Germany for these goods.