File No. 300.115/6249a
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Page)
2408. Your May 21, 10 p. m. re sugar-beet seed.2 Great need in United States of hops and lupulin of German or Austrian origin. Hops of this quality cannot be obtained elsewhere. Situation is therefore analogous to sugar-beet seed. Take up matter unofficially and without recognizing British order in council March 11, 1915,3 with [Page 581] Foreign Office and endeavor obtain similar arrangement re importation hops German and Austrian origin to that re beet seed, it being understood that shipments will be made from a neutral port, there being no question of exchange of commodities, and that consignment will be made to the Secretary of Commerce, who will only deliver the hops to the interested person on receipt of a guarantee that the hops are for domestic consumption and will not be reexported.
- Not printed; see despatch No. 1482, May 25, 1915, received June 4, Foreign Relations, 1915, Supplement, p. 247.↩
- Ibid., p. 144.↩