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The Secretary of State to the Minister in Sweden ( Bliss )49
Sir:
[Here follow, mutatis mutandis, the first five paragraphs of the instruction to Austria, printed on page 227.]
At the time that you make the above notification to the Swedish Government, you are instructed to furnish to the Foreign Office a Memorandum containing the more comprehensive and detailed description of the activities of the Customs Attachés that is contained in the Department’s Circular Instruction of April 2, 1925, with reference to this subject.
At this time you will explain to the Swedish Government that the procedure which is outlined in the Department’s Circular Instruction of April 2, is the result of a painstaking effort on the part of the Treasury and of this Department to meet the wishes of the Swedish Government as expressed in recent representations made to you by the Foreign Office and to the Department by the Swedish Legation,50 and at the same time to carry out the mandatory provisions of the Tariff Act of 1922. You may express the hope that the full explanation of the American law and of the duties which the Customs Attachés are directed to perform under it, which is contained in tin Department’s Circular Instruction of April 2, 1925, will remove any misunderstandings on the part of the Swedish Government.
[The remainder of the instruction is the same, mutatis mutandis, as the last three paragraphs of the instruction to Austria.]
I am [etc.]
- The same instruction, mutatis mutandis, was sent on April 18 to the Legation in Switzerland as No. 206.↩
- Protests against certain activities of Treasury representatives; see under Sweden, vol. ii, p. 725, and under Switzerland, vol. ii, p. 731.↩