Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 3294/7.

The Acting Secretary of State to Ambassador McCormick .

[Telegram.—Paraphrase.]

Department of State,
Washington , January 22, 1907 .

(Mr. Bacon informs Mr. McCormick from facts before the department at present that it appears that Mr. Jacobs is an American citizen, and as such is entitled to proper protection in the premises. Procedure in this case is contrary in several important particulars to that set forth in Minister McLane’s dispatch No. 74 of January 14, 1889. Mr. Bacon also instructs Mr. McCormick, if present proceedings are based solely upon comity, to state to the minister of foreign affairs that the United States seems to have as strong a claim to consideration of the French Government in asking adequate protection for an American citizen as the Argentine Government has to obtain his surrender.)