Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.5034/6

The Secretary of State to Special Representative Rodgers

[Telegram]

Department of State,
Washington, August 16, 1916, 5 p.m.

295. Your 278, August 10, 11 a.m. Advise appropriate authorities that decree providing that new corporations shall contain clause of renunciation by foreign stockholders of their national rights as to company affairs cannot be regarded by the United States Government as annulling the relations existing between itself and its citizens who may own stock in such corporation or as extinguishing its obligation to protect them in case of denial of justice.

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