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Show BLACKLIST PROTEST BECEIW LONDON American Note Said to Be Couched in Softer Language. LONDON", July 2S, 6:SS p. m. The protest pro-test of the United States government against the Eritish statutory blacklist was delivered to the foreign office late today, but officials there, not havin? time to master Jt3 contents, decline to discuss tt. It is known that while the note Is couched in softer lanuae than the mails detention documents. It nevertheless plainly states that the United States government cannot admit the validity of the blacklist on account of the far-reuch-Ine: effect Its ramifications will have on the trade of its citizens. The. British government is informed the note will be .eiven out to the American Ameri-can press on Monday, but there Is no indication in-dication as yet oi the time of its publication pub-lication here. A diplomat familiar with the contents of the note states that Its publication here is liable to cause much surprise, as for the last we-k Washington Washing-ton correspondents of ftntrlish newspapers newspa-pers have conveyed the Impression that the agitation in the United States against t lie blacklist had so far ceased that there was little likelihood of the American Ameri-can government taking any action in the matter. No later than yesterday several papers here slated that the agitation was so dead that no protest would be sent. Lord Robert Cecil, minister of war trade, stated today that the contracts that George W. McNear of San Francisco 'has with Australian lirms would not be ! affected bv the blacklist. |