File No. 763.72/3921
The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador ( Spring Rice )1
Excellency: The Department has been asked by the Secretary of the Treasury to advise him if your Government has a representative in this country who is authorized to incur obligations in its behalf of the kind contemplated by the bond bill now under consideration in the Congress of the United States.
This Government is of opinion that in addition to the power to sign the bonds of your Government which are to be purchased by the United States your representative should also have the power to agree to terms and conditions which will be an essential part of the general transaction.
I should be greatly obliged if you will answer my inquiry as soon as possible.
I have the honor [etc.]
Counselor
- The same, on the same date, to the French (No. 1834), Italian (No. 269), and Russian (No. 209) Ambassadors.↩