Office of the Historian
  1. Home
  2. Historical Documents
  3. Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915
  4. Document 381

The French Ambassador to the Secretary of State .

[Translation.]
Embassy of the French Republic to the United States,
Washington , November 10, 1915 .

Mr. Secretary of State: In reply to your excellency’s letter of this day’s date I hasten to confirm the oral assurances which I had previously given you and to the effect that my Government agrees with that of the United States to decide that the time within which the members of the Commission provided by the Treaty of September 15, 1914, are to be designated will be extended from July 22, 1915, to January 1, 1916.

The present exchange of notes is considered by my Government as sanctioning the said extension of time.

Be pleased to accept, Mr. Secretary of State, the assurances of my high consideration.

Jusserand.