Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 711.5914/59

Minister Egan to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

American Legation,
Copenhagen, May 23, 1916, noon.

107. Referring to the Legation’s despatch number 317 of April 10, 1916. The Minister for Foreign Affairs thinks that the time is propitious for presenting the question of the islands here. He believes that the Government of the United States will not object to the Danish Government’s extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

Egan