195 Code/118
The Danish Minister (Wadsted) to the Secretary of State
Sir: With further reference to correspondence regarding the “Proposed Code of Fair Competition for the Shipping Industry”—your last note dated April 7, 193428—I have the honor to address myself anew to you in the matter.
I have been acquainted with a new draft code of which I take the liberty to enclose a copy.28a This draft contains in Art. III, Section 1, a provision to the effect that the code shall apply to all owners of all vessels of all flags. Furthermore, it contains, with regard to the points especially enumerated in my note of February 12, 1934, several provisions which would seem contrary to the statements, referring to these points, in your reply-note of February 17, 1934.
In my two former notes of February 12th and March 29th, 1934, I have had the honor to convey to you at length the views of the Danish Government and to request your good offices in order that a code which may be approved be so worded as to eliminate foreign (Danish) vessels. Referring to the said notes and the considerations set forth in same I beg leave, acting upon the renewed instructions of my Government, to reiterate this request.
I avail myself [etc.]