File No. 855.48/724
The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Page) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 13, 5.37 p.m.]
9507. Your 7226, April 11. The Foreign Office has just sent me the following answer:
The Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs presents his compliments to the United States Ambassador, and, with reference to Mr. Page’s memorandum No. 514 of the 12th instant relative to a question of allocating 60,000 tons of shipping, either for the transportation of American troops and supplies to France, or to the Belgian Relief, has the honor to say that [1] in the present circumstances it appears to His Majesty’s Government to be of paramount importance that this tonnage should be devoted to military purposes; (2) there would be no objection on the part of His Majesty’s Government to the Commission for Relief in Belgium being invited to charter further Swedish ships now in Sweden.