196.6/1104

The Secretary of State to the Danish Minister ( Brun )

My Dear Mr. Minister: I take pleasure in acknowledging the receipt of your note of July 9, 1929, in which you informed me that the misgivings of your Government with respect to the effect of the enactment into law of Senate Bill No. 2945, relating to the payment of advanced wages and allotments in respect of seamen on foreign vessels, are equally applicable to the new Senate Bill No. 314, which was reintroduced by Senator LaFollette in the Seventy-first Congress.

In reply I have to inform you that the Department has taken due note of the position of your Government as set forth in your communication under acknowledgment. In view of the fact, however, that the Congress is not at present sitting, the Department deems it preferable to wait the reconvening of Congress before bringing the considerations set forth in your communication to the attention of the appropriate committees of the Senate and House of Representatives.11

I am [etc.]

Henry L. Stimson
  1. Similar replies were made by the Department to the British and Norwegian memoranda.