File No. 812.516/206
The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador ( Jusserand)
My Dear Mr. Ambassador: In further reply to your note of March 16, 1918, stating that it is the opinion of your Government that the latter part of Article 10 of the bill then before the Mexican Congress, [Page 654] providing for the creation of the sole bank of issue, jeopardizes foreign capital invested in Mexico, and requesting that you be informed of the measures this Government considered it advisable to take in the premises, I beg to inform you that I do not consider the present time opportune to make representations to the Mexican Government in relation to the matter.
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