File No. 711.5914/239½
The Danish Minister to the Secretary of State
Washington, December 29, 1916.
Dear Mr. Secretary of State: Reply to your letter of December 23d I beg to inform you that I have now received authority by cablegram from the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs to proceed immediately to the exchange of notes regarding the church property in the Danish West Indian Islands.
[Page 689]I beg to propose that the notes be dated from the same day, and, if entirely convenient to you, I will be glad to come to the Department on any day of next week which you may decide upon, and hand to you a note identical with the enclosed draft,21 which, as you will see, is the same text of which I sent you a copy by my letter of October 6, 1916. In exchange I shall expect to receive from you a note identical with the text which you were good enough to send me by your letter of October 9, 1916.
I do not know whether you desire that a special protocol should be signed by us regarding this exchange of notes, but, if so, it will be entirely agreeable to me.
I am [etc.]
- Not printed See note of January 3, 1917, from the Danish Minister, post. ↩