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

File No. 711.5914/242½

The Danish Minister to the Secretary of State

Danish Legation,
Bar Harbor, September 16, 1916.

Dear Mr. Secretary of State: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your telegram of yesterday advising me that Mr. Egan had telegraphed you a translation of the text of the Danish note to be exchanged for the American note regarding church properties in the Danish West Indian Islands and that through Mr. Egan you had suggested to the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs to telegraph the Danish text of the Danish note to me.

I learn from this that the exchange of notes, which so far has taken place at Copenhagen between the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Egan, was only a preliminary exchange and not the definite exchange of notes, as a cablegram from the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs received here on September 14 led me to understand, and as I consequently wrote you on September 14.

I shall of course take pleasure in advising you, as soon as I may receive the Danish text of the Danish note here.

I am [etc.]

C. Brun