File No. 763.72112/3642
The Ambassador in France (
Sharp) to
the Secretary of State
No. 5421
Paris,
May 4, 1917.
[Received May 18.]
Sir: Referring to my telegram No. 2049 of
the 26th instant [ultimo],1 I have the honor to transmit
herewith copies of the revised French black list,1 which appeared in the Journal Officiel of the 26th ultimo, as well
as a communication, in copy and translation from the Foreign Office,
in which it is stated that the names of all American houses and
persons have been removed because of the measures which the American
Government expects to take for the suppression of trade with enemy
houses.
. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
I have [etc.]
[Enclosure—Translation]
The French Minister of Blockade
(
Cochin) to the American Ambassador (
Sharp)
Mr. Ambassador: I have the honor to
inform Your Excellency that because of the measures which the
Federal Government expects
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to take in order to stop commerce with
enemy houses, I have decided to withdraw from the black list,
the houses of commerce established in the United States and in
the Philippine Islands.
I do not doubt that the Federal Government will see in this act
the confidence which the Government of the Republic feels in the
effectiveness of the measures adopted by the American
authorities in view of cooperating in the economic warfare
followed by the Allied Governments against the Central
Empires.
Accept [etc.]
D. Cochin
Paris
, April 30,
1917.