File No. 867.48/740
The Minister in Sweden ( Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 7, 4.55 a.m.]
1635. Your 557, February 21, 6 p.m., and my despatch No. 977.1 From Constantinople:
[February] 27. The Committee states as follows: The circumstantial details are contained in Mr. Fowle’s message of January 122 to the American Minister at Stockholm. The gold will be transported by the German courier and the disbursements made by the American Relief Committee as heretofore. The German Ambassador will deliver to the Swedish Legation at Constantinople for the American Relief Committee the amount in gold remitted by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the German Legation at Stockholm. The Committee places the same confidence in its representatives in the provinces regarding the use of the entire profit realized on the transaction that it has reposed in them during the past three years for the distribution of other relief. Please consult Elkus, Dodge, Barton, and Peet. Information regarding the attitude of the Turkish Government toward the proposed transaction will be telegraphed soon.