File No. 811.50
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
[Telegram]
Washington,
April 12, 1917, 5 p.m.
4675. Herbert C. Hoover has been appointed chairman of the Food Commission of the Council of National Defense and desires while in Europe to study Allied food conditions. Endeavor to arrange for Hoover and his staff to have access to whatever Government departments can supply such information as Hoover desires to obtain. Confer with Hoover or his representative regarding departments which he desires to visit.
Lansing