707.1162/9b: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Commissioner at Berlin (Dresel)
1527. By the exchange of ratifications November 11, 1921, and by Executive Proclamation November 14, 1921, diplomatic relations between the United States and Germany may be resumed.
[Page 34]You are instructed to request your provisional recognition as Chargé d’Affaires ad interim pending arrival of letters of credence.
As soon as you have been received, you will advise the Department thereof and request the Foreign Office to recognize the diplomatic secretaries of your staff, and [here follow a list of military attaches and lists of consular appointments].
They should also proceed to their respective posts as soon as the principal officers go there.
You should at once furnish Consul General Coffin26 with a copy of this telegram and have him instruct those officers now in Germany but not already at posts named to proceed immediately to such posts prepared as soon as you notify them that you have been formally received, to request temporary recognition from local authorities, pending receipt of formal recognition, and to take over offices, furniture, archives and other American Government property which may now be in hands of Spanish Consuls in charge of American interests.
Arrangements are being made with the Spanish Government for the return, upon request, of all government property held by diplomatic and consular representatives of Spain in Germany.
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- At Berlin.↩