File No. 311.62/458
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Switzerland ( Stovall)
[Telegram]
Washington,
April 22, 1918, 4 p.m.
1793. Department’s 1436, February 1, 4 p.m. A reconsideration of policy has now led this Government to authorize the American National Red Cross to receive and transmit welfare inquiries through the International Red Cross for persons in the United States and in enemy or ally-of-enemy countries, for which purpose a license has been issued by the War Trade Board. You may henceforth refer such inquiries to the International Red Cross.
Lansing