File No. 312.51/100.
The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador.
Washington, December 2, 1914.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of November 12, 1914, requesting the Department to make representations in behalf of the French stockholders of the National Bank of Mexico at Mexico City.
In reply I have the honor to inform your excellency that it has been the practice of this Government, in dealing with Mexican affairs, to make representations in behalf of the nationals of other governments in localities where such governments were not represented; but in view of the fact that the French Government has a diplomatic representative at Mexico City, and in further view of the fact that no American citizens appear to be interested in the National Bank of Mexico, it is not thought that it would be advisable for this Government to make representations to the Mexican authorities in the sense indicated.
Accept [etc.]