659.11241/7
The Secretary of State to the Danish Minister (Brun)
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of October 23 [24], 1928, enclosing a copy of a note dated April 25, 1928, addressed to the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs by the American Chargé d’Affaires ad interim at Copenhagen concerning the extension of the privilege of free importation to American and Danish consular officers in the country of the other under the provisions of the Convention of 1826 between the United States and Denmark. You inquire as to the interpretation by the two Governments concerned of the words “all other personal property” as contained in Article 27 of the Treaty between the United States and Germany.
I have the honor to inform you in reply that under the provisions of Article 27 of the Treaty between the United States and Germany, American and German consular officers in the country of the other, their families and suites, may import free of duty articles or commodities of whatsoever kind for their personal use except articles, the importation of which is prohibited by the laws of either country. On the basis of the most favored nation clause in the Treaty between the United States and Denmark this Government is prepared to extend to Danish consular officers assigned to the United States on conditions of reciprocity this privilege as well as the others mentioned in Article 27 of the Treaty between the United States and Germany.
Accept [etc.]