File No. 658.119/454

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden ( Morris)

[Telegram]

894. Legation 2308, June 15, 5 p.m., and Legation 2342, June 20, 5 p.m. You will present to the Minister of Foreign Affairs a note and enclosure in the following terms:

I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your note of June 14 in which you advise me that your Government has ratified and approved the agreement signed at London on May 29 by representatives of the Governments of Sweden, Great Britain, France, and Italy. I am instructed by my Government to advise you that the Secretary of State of the United States has received from the chairman of the War Trade Board of the United States a communication of which a copy is enclosed herewith. I take this occasion to express my gratification and that of my Government at this conclusion of the negotiations which have been pending.

The following is the text of the communication which is to constitute the enclosure above referred to:

June 26, 1918.

The Honorable the Secretary of State,
Washington, D. C.

Sir: Referring to the agreement dated May 29, 1918, between the Government of Sweden on the one hand and the Governments of Great Britain, France, and Italy on the other hand, I have the honor to inform you that the War Trade Board of the United States, an administrative agency acting pursuant to authority conferred upon it by the president of the United States pursuant to acts of Congress, will, so long as the agreement shall remain in force and be observed by the Swedish Government, grant licenses in accordance with the terms of said agreement and in particular will grant export licenses covering the commodities enumerated in the first schedule of the agreement, in so far as the commodities (1) are not required for consumption in the United States or in nations associated with the United States in the present war or to meet other obligations of the United States, and (2) will not directly or indirectly be exported to any country or ally of any country with which the United States is or may be at war.

I am [etc.]

V. C. McCormick.

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