711.5821/50
The Minister in Sweden (Morris) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 10.]
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of Department instruction, No. 619, of November 25, 1919, in which I am instructed to report whether a note was addressed by the Legation to the Royal Swedish Foreign Office in regard to the abrogation of Articles 13 and 14 of the Treaty of 1827, and in accordance with an instruction from the Department of May 29, 1915.
In reply I have the honor to report that according to the Legation’s records no note was addressed to the Foreign Office in regard to the abrogation of Articles 13 and 14 of the Treaty of 1827 until the receipt of the Department’s instruction, No. 245, of December 28, 1917,77 whereupon, on February 4, 1918, the Legation wrote to the Royal Swedish Foreign Office giving it official notification that the operation of the Treaty of July 4, 1827, would terminate on February 4, 1919. A copy of the Legation’s note of February 4, 1918, to the Foreign Office, together with a copy of the latter’s reply, was sent to the Department with the Legation’s despatch, No. 1557, of January 28, 1919.
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