Office of the Historian

File No. 654.119/157a

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland (Stovall)1

[Telegram]
Washington, March 12, 1918, 6 p.m.

1604. For the purpose of obtaining greater tonnage to facilitate the movement of the wheat crop from South America and thus hasten the relief in wheat promised to Switzerland, War Trade Board has placed a temporary prohibition upon the importation of corn from overseas.

Polk
  1. The same, on the same date, to the Ambassador in Argentina (No. 536) and the Minister in Venezuela (No. 636).↩