Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 838.111/73.]

The Department of State to the French Embassy.

[Memorandum]

In response to the inquiry¹ of the Ambassador of France regarding this Government’s willingness to join with the French Government in urging the Government of Haiti to accord the Ottoman Syrians in Haiti an equitable extension after June first wherein to wind up their business affairs, the Ambassador of France was informed that the Government of the United States has already independently urged upon the Government of Haiti the desirability and wisdom, with respect to all foreign interests, of foregoing the enforcement of its drastic law. Moreover, inasmuch as this Government has declined to accede to a request similar to the present, made by the Ottoman Government in this matter, it does not see its way clear at the present time to join with the Government of France.

Department of State,
Washington , May 29, 1912.

1. This was a verbal inquiry made during a call of the Counselor of the French Embassy at the Department a few days previous to the date of this memorandum.