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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918, Supplement 1, The World War, Volume II

Negotiations with Spain Concerning Exports and Shipping


Contents

    • Conclusion of the Spanish-American trade agreement and Spanish-French financial agreement, March 7—Difficulties in securing their execution (Documents 699–723)
      • Negotiations for a shipping agreement—Reorganization of the machinery for controlling purchases in and exports to Spain by the Associated Powers (Documents 724–750)
        • Conclusion of the Spanish-American financial agreement, August 28—Efforts to secure horses and mules for the American Expeditionary Forces—Arrangements for the distribution of cotton shipments to Spain (Documents 751–770)

        Contents

        • List of Papers
        • Part II: Belligerent Rights and Practices
          • Attitude of the United States Regarding Contraband of War (Documents 1–6)
          • Attitude of the United States Regarding Prizes, Visit and Search, etc (Documents 7–14)
          • Measures Affecting Neutral Trade: Control of Exports, Imports, and Bunker Coal
            • Proposals to relax the embargo on shipments to European neutrals of nonessential articles—Efforts of the American Government to secure the elimination of British “letters of assurance” (“navicerts”) and examination at Halifax for shipments to neutrals—Discussion of cooperation with the Allies in the control of shipments to neutrals; proposals for an Inter-Allied Blockade Committee—Bunker license rules of January 19—Discussion of the “financial blockade”; Executive order of January 26 for the control of international financial transactions (Documents 15–40)
            • Proclamations of February 14 requiring licenses for all exports and imports—Arrangements for cooperation with the Allies in the issuance of export licenses—Elimination of “navicerts” and calls at Halifax—Relaxation of the embargo on nonessential articles for Sweden and the Netherlands (Documents 41–59)
            • Establishment of the Allied Blockade Committee at London, March 15, and of inter-Allied trade committees in neutral countries; participation of the United States—Relaxation of the embargo on nonessential articles for Denmark—Requirement of “certificates of interest” for shipments from neutral countries—Rationing of newsprint paper to Latin American countries (Documents 60–81)
            • Proposal for an Allied Blockade Committee at Paris dealing with Spain and Switzerland; disapproval by Great Britain—Joint certification by British and American consuls of manifests of neutral ships leaving South American ports—Regulations regarding the routes and cargoes of sailing ships—Proposed new plan for the routing of neutral ships to examination ports; disapproval by the United States (Documents 82–108)
          • Black Lists of Neutral Firms
            • Efforts to coordinate the American enemy trading list with the British statutory list and the French general black list—Agreement for review of evidence on firms in Latin America at Washington, in Spain and Morocco (Switzerland and Greece later included) at Paris, and in other European countries and possessions at London (Documents 109–136)
            • Publication of the enemy trading list including European firms, May 1—Agreement with Great Britain and France for joint consideration of licenses for transactions with listed or other enemy firms; suspension owing to reservations imposed—Institution of the American confidential list and cloaks list—Discussion of a projected black list for Switzerland and of Japanese participation in the black-list conferences (Documents 137–166)
            • Consular instruction of August 30 describing the various lists in effect and the methods of coordination with the Allied Powers—Protests of the Swiss and Spanish Governments against the black lists—Proposals for a joint communication to Portugal to secure more effective action against enemy trade—Continued discussion of coordination of licensing policy (Documents 167–188)
            • Limited resumption of enemy trade license conferences, October 11; American efforts to secure greater coordination—Participation of Italy and Japan in black-list and licensing conferences—Proposed participation of Belgium—Continuance of the black lists after the armistice (Documents 189–210)
          • Attitude of the Associated Governments toward Neutral Ships Carrying German Safe-Conducts (Documents 211–238)
          • Negotiations with Norway Concerning Exports
            • Assurances regarding supplies communicated to Norway, January 9—American proposals supplementary to those of 1917—Publication of the American proposals—Norwegian reply, February 2, to the American note of December 20, 1917—American note of February 9—Norwegian notes of February 14 and 16—Release of the Norwegian ship Kim—British observations on the proposed agreement (Documents 239–263)
            • The draft agreement submitted to the Associated Governments, March 2—Draft of April 1—Discussions on the basis of these drafts—Norway’s reaffirmation of neutrality, March 9: attitude of the Associated Governments—Agreement for chartering Norwegian sailing vessels, April 20 (Documents 264–283)
            • The agreement of April 30—Negotiations for revival of the “branch agreements” with Norwegian associations (Documents 284–306)
          • Negotiations with Sweden Concerning Exports and Shipping
            • The modus vivendi signed January 29—Negotiations regarding its application—Modification of the American bunkering regulations—Proposals for a general agreement—Plan for the purchase of Swedish iron ore (Documents 307–332)
            • Swedish counterproposals for the general agreement; discussion of the terms—Assent of the United States to participation in the purchase of iron ore—The cases of the Swedish ships Kronprins Gustaf Adolf and Pacific (Documents 333–349)
            • The agreement between Sweden and the Allied Powers, May 29; engagement of the War Trade Board to grant licenses under the agreement (Documents 350–361)
            • Protest of the American Government, September 20, against Swedish exports to Germany in contravention of the agreement—Participation of the United States in the purchase of Swedish iron ore and Norwegian molybdenum (Documents 362–379)
          • Negotiations with Denmark Concerning Exports and Shipping
            • The War Trade Board’s proposal for a trade and shipping agreement, January 17—The Danish reply, February 13—American insistence on the use of chartered tonnage in the war zone (Documents 380–395)
            • Danish assent to the use of ships in the war zone, March 18—Dispatch of a special mission to the United States—Negotiations at Washington for an agreement—British and French objections to the proposed terms (Documents 396–420)
            • The Danish-American agreements of September 18—The Anglo-Danish shipping agreement (Documents 421–425)
          • The Commercial Agreement between the Allied Powers and Iceland, May 23; Concurrence of the War Trade Board of the United States, September 11 (Documents 426–438)
          • The Taking Over of Dutch Ships—Agreements Regarding Exports to the Netherlands
            • Negotiations for definitive rationing and tonnage agreements—Provisional arrangement, January 25, for the employment of Dutch ships in United States ports (Documents 439–460)
            • Difficulties and delays in executing the provisional arrangement and concluding the final agreements—Dutch request for advance grain shipments—New tonnage proposals, with time limit for acceptance, made by the British Government, March 8 (Documents 461–484)
            • Proclamation authorizing the taking over of Dutch ships, March 20—Explanatory statement by the President—British statement in explanation of parallel action—Terms regarding use of the ships (Documents 485–498)
            • Declarations and protests of the Netherland Government, March 30 and 31—Incidental undertakings regarding disposal of the ships’ cargoes and other points—Proposals for immediate grain shipments to the Netherlands—American replies, April 12, to protests of the Netherland Government—British reply, April 25 (Documents 499–529)
            • Assurances given to the Netherland Government against further requisitioning of ships—Renewed consideration of rationing proposals—Arrangements for the sending of ships to the Netherlands upon others coming in exchange—German requirement of safe-conducts—Arrangements regarding the crews of requisitioned ships (Documents 530–555)
            • Request by the Netherland Government for resumption of negotiations for a rationing agreement, June 4—Arrangements for a convoy to the Netherland East Indies—Proposal by the United States of an offer of two months’ rations; objections by Great Britain—Requirement by the United States of a protest by the Netherland Government against the German prize laws as a condition on special grain shipments (Documents 556–574)
            • Resumption of exports to the Netherland East Indies, July 18—Determination of a scale of values for requisitioned ships—Consideration of an agreement with the Netherlands Oversea Trust (Documents 575–587)
            • Agreement for the resumption of general negotiations with the Netherland Government—American public statement on the negotiations, September 20—Report of the Shipping Board on Dutch ships, crews, and cargoes—American offer of coal to the Netherlands on condition of complete embargo on food exports to Germany (Documents 588–606)
            • Negotiations with Netherland representatives in London—Agreement with the Netherland Government, November 25—Agreement with the Netherlands Oversea Trust, December 17, adhered to by the War Trade Board (Documents 607–627)
          • Negotiations with Switzerland Concerning Exports
            • Insistence of the United States on the obligation of the Associated Powers to furnish shipping for Swiss grain supplies under the agreement of December 5, 1917—Allocation of Dutch ships for this purpose—Difficulty of securing German safe-conducts—Negotiations with Switzerland concerning the export of cotton goods (Documents 628–655)
            • Agreement between the Associated Powers and Switzerland concerning the export of wood to France and Italy, May 1; supplementary protocol on other subjects—Announcement by the United States, May 3, of shipments of grain under naval convoy—Agreement regarding Swiss exports of cotton goods to Germany, May 8—Efforts of Switzerland to obtain German and Austrian ships: attitude of the United States, France, and Great Britain (Documents 656–685)
            • Extension of the general agreement of December 5, 1917—Discussion of a new general agreement—Italian-Swiss agreement, October 23, 1918 (Documents 686–698)
          • Negotiations with Spain Concerning Exports and Shipping
            • Conclusion of the Spanish-American trade agreement and Spanish-French financial agreement, March 7—Difficulties in securing their execution (Documents 699–723)
            • Negotiations for a shipping agreement—Reorganization of the machinery for controlling purchases in and exports to Spain by the Associated Powers (Documents 724–750)
            • Conclusion of the Spanish-American financial agreement, August 28—Efforts to secure horses and mules for the American Expeditionary Forces—Arrangements for the distribution of cotton shipments to Spain (Documents 751–770)
          • The Taking Over by Spain of German Ships to Replace Spanish Ships Sunk by German Submarines (Documents 771–791)
          • The Control of Spanish Ships in Latin American Trade—Censorship of Mails and Bunkering Regulations in Cuba (Documents 792–832)
          • The Transfer of Merchant Ships from Belligerent to Neutral Flags: Attitude of the American and Allied Governments (Documents 833–846)
          • The Censorship of Diplomatic and Consular Mail (Documents 847–858)
          • Mine Laying and the Establishment of Maritime Danger Zones: the North Sea Barrage (Documents 859–866)
        • Part III: Neutral Duties
          • The Treatment of Belligerent Submarines in Neutral Waters: the Mining by Norway of Its Territorial Waters Adjoining the North Sea Barrage (Documents 867–884)
          • The Treatment in a Neutral Port of the Crew of a Wrecked Belligerent Warship: the Case of the Crew of the “Seeadler” (Documents 885–886)
          • The Treatment of Armed Merchant Ships in Certain Foreign Ports (Documents 887–892)
          • The Status in Neutral Ports of Neutral Ships Taken Over by a Belligerent (Documents 893–900)
          • The Transit through Neutral Territory of Supplies Shipped from a Belligerent Country to a Country Occupied by Its Armed Forces (Documents 901–909)
          • The Prevention of Violations of Neutrality Laws by Consular Officers of Belligerent States (Documents 910–912)
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