The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Treasury ( McAdoo )
Washington
,
April 29, 1916
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Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Department’s letter, quoting a cablegram from the collector of customs at San Juan inquiring whether the German crew on board the German steamer President, lying at San Juan, should be removed from the vessel.
In reply I have the honor to say that the Department does not at present see its way clear to recommend that the crew be taken off the S. S. President.
I have [etc.]
Robert Lansing