701.60D11/206
The Secretary of State to the Finnish Minister (Procopé)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Honorable the Minister of Finland and has the honor to inform the Minister in reply to the inquiry made in his note no. 20 dated January 5, 194236 that the inquiries described in the Secretary’s note of January 3, 1942 apply equally to personnel of the Finnish Legation and Finnish Consulates who are American citizens, since such personnel, because of their official capacities, are under the jurisdiction of the Minister of Finland. The Minister would appear to be entirely justified in requiring such personnel of American citizenship to conform to the Secretary of State’s request of January 3, 1942 or, in the case of their refusal to do so, in severing their official connections with the Finnish Government.
This opportunity is taken to modify the Secretary’s request of January 3 to make it necessary for Finnish consular personnel in the United States to make inquiries of the character in question whenever they desire to depart from the city limits of the cities in which their respective consular offices are situated.
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