Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1939, General, The British Commonwealth and Europe, Volume II

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The Secretary of State to the German Chargé (Thomsen)

Washington, November 2, 1939.

Sir: I have received your note of October 21, 1939¹⁷ in which you ask whether the Government of the United States agrees to the proposal made by the Government of the German Reich in your Embassy’s note of July 22, 1939 that the operation of the Extradition Treaty of July 12, 1930 between the United States and the German Reich shall now extend also to the territory in which the former Austro-American Extradition Treaty was effective.

The Government of the United States agrees to this proposal of the Government of the German Reich.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

R. Walton Moore

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