Office of the Historian

859b.01/4

The Chargé in Denmark (Schoenfeld) to the Secretary of State

Copenhagen, June 8, 1920.
[Received June 30.]
No. 491

Sir: Referring to the Department’s telegram No. 590 June 5, 7 p.m. to the American Embassy in London concerning the attitude of the United States Government towards the right of preemption of a third party should the Danish Government desire to dispose of its territory in Greenland, I have the honor to inform you that I have to-day forwarded a memorandum in the sense of the Department’s telegram above mentioned to the Danish Foreign Office. A copy of this memorandum3 is enclosed herewith for the information of the Department.

I have [etc.]

H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld
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