File No. 825.6374/61
The Secretary of State to the Consul General at London ( Skinner)
[Telegram]
Washington,
December 6, 1917, 6 p.m.
Supplementing Department’s December 4th regarding nitrates. In case acceptance of proposal in paragraph 3 is made conditional upon including Gibbs among purchasers for American market on basis of their fair proportion of past business, you are authorized to assent to that arrangement.
Lansing