740.00111A Combat Areas/6: Telegram
The Minister in Sweden (Sterling) to the Secretary of State
[Received November 8—11 a.m.]
190. Local agent of the McCormack Line asks if it is possible under the Neutrality Act that its vessels which call only at Scandinavian ports could proceed from the United States direct to Bergen or north of Bergen, thence to Bergen, Oslo, Goteborg, Copenhagen and Malmo, remaining entirely in neutral territorial waters. Agent points out 20 years establishment of his line to Scandinavia and great loss if forced to abandon. I gave him no encouragement but said I would transmit inquiry. He states steamship Mormactide is scheduled to sail next Friday from New York.