711.572/33
The Norwegian Minister (Bryn) to the Acting Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Acting Secretary of State: In your note of February 27, 1919, relating to the exchange of notes between your Department and myself of February 1, 1919, you have called my attention to the fact that in withdrawing the denunciation of the Treaty of July 4, 1827, except as to articles 13 and 14, the Government of United States understands so far as the laws of the United States are concerned that these articles terminated on July 1, 1916. You presume that this is also the view of the Norwegian Government.
In reply to your said note I have the pleasure to inform you that I have been authorized by my Government to state to you that the Norwegian Government agrees to consider articles 13 and 14 of the [Page 54] Treaty to have been terminated on July 1, 1916, in accordance with the Notification which the United States Minister at Christiania addressed to the Norwegian Government on June 24, 1915.
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