Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918

File No. 711.0021/131

The Minister in the Netherlands ( Garrett) to the Secretary of State

No. 1375

The Hague, June 10, 1918.

Sir: With reference to your instructions Nos. 322 and 323 of April 4, 1918, regarding the abrogation of the treaties concluded by the Government of the United States and the Government of the Netherlands on January 19, 1839, and May 23, 1878, respectively, which were received by me on the 10th of May, 1918, I have the honor to enclose herewith copies of my notes¹ of the latter date to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in which I carried out your instructions to denounce these treaties, and of the reply of the Minister for Foreign Affairs—together with a translation—of June 3, 1918. The Minister for Foreign Affairs in his reply takes note of the statement in my communications to him to the effect that the two treaties in question will terminate on May 10, 1919.

I have [etc.]

J. W. Garrett

[Enclosure—Translation]

The Netherland Minister of Foreign Affairs ( Loudon) to the American Minister ( Garrett)

No. 28757

The Hague, June 3, 1918.

Mr. Minister: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency’s two notes of May 10 last in which you were good enough to inform me officially of the denunciation on the part of the United States of the two conventions concluded with the Netherlands, namely the commercial convention of January 19, 1839, and the consular convention of May 23, 1878.

This denunciation, as your excellency kindly points out to me, this time has regard to the two treaties in their entirety.

I have also taken good note in the communication from your excellency that the two treaties in question will terminate on May 10, 1919.

Accept [etc.]

J. Loudon

1. Not printed. Notes are identical with paragraphs 2 to 5 of instruction No. 322, and paragraphs 2 and 3 of instruction No. 323, ante, pp. 3–5, with the date, May 10, 1919, inserted in the blank spaces in the instructions.