File No. 311.165B22/4
The Secretary of State to the Salvadoran Minister ( Zaldivar)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your two notes, respectively, of December 14 and December 17,1 in regard to your Government’s desire to have the Banco Salvadoreño removed from the War Trade Board’s enemy trading list, and in reply to inform you that, in view of the guarantees given by the Salvadorean Government to the Government of the United States, that in future the operations and policy of the bank will be neutral in every particular and that such measures as may be necessary in connection with that institution will be taken by it to make this guarantee wholly effective, this bank has been withdrawn from the enemy trading list.
The War Trade Board inform this Department that as late as July 16, 1917, the Banco Salvadoreño wrote the Banco Aleman Transatlantico, Barcelona, Spain, stating that they wished to remit funds to Germany by wireless via Nauen. The agent of the bank, Cuno G. Mathies, proposed to remit funds for various parties in Germany.
The Department requests that the bank be instructed to furnish the American Legation in San Salvador with a statement as to the bank’s personnel, more especially regarding the present manager.
Accept [etc.]
- Note of Dec. 14 not printed.↩