File No. 300.115/12452
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 21, 5.30 p.m.]
6260. Department’s 4832, May 14.1 Foreign Office informs me to-day that, re goods in Rotterdam, it has accumulating evidence showing goods are still being ordered into Holland from Germany by American merchants with object of shipping after the war, this evidence coming from intercepted letter in case of Swiss Clock Company of New York, some of the goods referred to in it being still in Germany and have not been paid for.
The United States Government would doubtless refuse to support any application for shipment of such goods but your excellency will see from this instance that if any further facilities are to be granted for shipment of enemy’s goods from Rotterdam to America the utmost care will have to be exercised to insure that only bona fide applications are granted and that orders of this kind will receive no consideration.
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