Office of the Historian

600.119/1856: Telegram

The Ambassador in Great Britain ( Davis ) to the Acting Secretary of State

London , December 18, 1918.
[Received December 18—5:19 p.m.]

4720. War Trade Board [from Sheldon]: Number 2127. Your 1815. Department’s 3354, December 10. Subject to confirmation by Cotton Program Committee, A.B.C. agrees to increasing Scandinavian cotton rations.…

Decision on increase of Dutch cotton rations will be given next week. French are disturbed over possibility of Dutch competition and are protracting consideration pending final signature of N.O.T. agreement.36

Davis
  1. Joint agreement between the Governments of Great Britain, France, and Italy and the Netherlands Oversea Trust, Dec. 17, 1918, adhered to by the War Trade Board, Foreign Relations, 1918, supp. 1, vol. ii, p. 1584.↩