File No. 611.627/376.
The Acting Secretary of State to the German Ambassador.
Washington, March 21, 1911.
On the 9th instant the Acting Secretary of State had the honor to address to his excellency, the Imperial German ambassador, a note in which, with a view to ending the controversy between the two Governments regarding the potash question, a plan was suggested by which it was thought that that desirable result might be accomplished.
Supposing that by this time His Imperial German Majesty’s Government, animated by a like desire and with the same spirit of friendliness that moved the Government of the United States in making the proposal, has given its earnest attention to the conciliatory plan of settlement suggested by the United States, the Acting Secretary of State has the honor to beg His Excellency Count von Bernstorff kindly to put him in possession as early as may be of the result of the prompt consideration which it is strongly hoped His Imperial Majesty’s Government has given to the proposal.