File No. 763.72/5197
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page) to the Secretary of State
[Telegram]
London,
June 7, 1917, 8 p.m.
[Received June 8, 1.15 a.m.]
[Received June 8, 1.15 a.m.]
6391. Your 4942, June 6, 6 p.m. Northcliffe is sent on a purely commercial errand to supervise the purchasing agents of the British Government in the United States. He has no diplomatic errand or standing nor is he a “commissioner or commissioner general” nor do his duties have any reference to what Mr. Balfour did.
He knows the United States better than any Englishman except Bryce and he will have no official relations with our Government different from the British commercial agents now there.
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