Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

Mr. Hay to Mr. Swenson.

Department of State,
Washington, May 1, 1900.

No. 95.]

Sir: I have to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch No. 160, of March 29 last, reporting the action of the Danish Government in banishing two American citizens from Denmark on the ground that they are Mormon missionaries.

In reply I have to inform you that the Department fully approves your course in regard to the matter and has nothing to add to its instruction to Mr. Risley of July 23, 1897 (Foreign Relations 1897, p. 123), which shows the present attitude of this Government toward Mormon missionaries.

I am, etc.,

John Hay.