File No. 763.72/8310a
The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Switzerland ( Wilson)
[Telegram]
Washington,
December 21, 1917, 5 p.m.
1257. You are authorized to cooperate fully with your British, French, and Italian colleagues in assisting them to secure loans for their Governments from Switzerland. Explain to Swiss Government that this Government hopes that mutual cooperation evidenced by the agreement lately entered into by War Trade Board and Swiss Government will be continued and further developed by financial arrangements made by Switzerland with those associated with us in the war.
Lansing