File No. 838.77/132
The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador
Washington, May 11, 1916.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s note of the 8th instant, in which you request that an arrangement be reached as early as possible whereby the outstanding coupons of the bonds of the National Railroad of Haiti, now held by citizens of France, may be paid.
As the Haitian Minister for Foreign Affairs has informed the representative of your Government, the Haitian Commission, now in the United States, is charged, among other duties, with the conduct of negotiations looking to the solution of the present difficulties between the railroad and the Government of Haiti, in connection with which this Department has been happy to tender its good offices in the hope that an early and mutually satisfactory settlement of the matter may be attained.
Accept [etc.]