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File No. 654.119/119

The Chargé in Switzerland ( Wilson ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
Berne , February 4, 1918, 6 p.m.
[Received February 6, 12.43 a.m.]

2575. For War Trade Board:

Your 1378, January 26 [22], 6 p.m. In Dresel’s absence inform you that Foreign Office has replied to Legation’s memorandum [which] requests elimination of words “of American origin,” as indicated your telegram, and adding that Department of Public Economy is quite in accord to suppress the words in question.

Wilson