File No. 10054/32.
Minister Egan to the Secretary of State.
Copenhagen, June 18, 1908.
Sir: Referring to the department’s circular instruction of April 19, 1907,1 I notice that paragraph 150 of the instructions, as amended by the Executive order of April 6, 1907, permits the issuance of a passport (emergency) “Where inconvenience or hardship would result,” etc. Paragraph 2, page 3 of the instruction, reads in part: “Emergency passports may be issued only when it is clearly shown that the person applying for the passport is about to proceed to a country to obtain admission into which a passport is obligatory.”
This last paragraph would seem to restrict the issuance of emergency passports beyond the language of the instructions, and I therefore have the honor to inquire if, for example, I would be authorized to issue emergency passports to persons desiring to enter Germany, where, I am informed, the lack of a passport is a decided “inconvenience.”
I have, etc.,