File No. 18659/122.
The French Ambassador to the Secretary of State.
Washington, December 1, 1909.
Mr. Secretary of State: Your Excellency was good enough to address me a letter under date of November 18 stating why and how far the provisions contained in the diplomatic note signed by the United States and Germany April 22, 1907, would continue to apply to French products.
I hasten to thank Your Excellency for that communication, which contained detailed statements as to the grounds for each of the decisions reached by the Federal Government in its desire to further the most friendly commercial relations between the United States, on the one side, and France and the other countries concerned, on the other.
This desire, as Your Excellency is aware, is in full harmony with the views of my own Government, to which I am reporting Your Excellency’s communication with particular stress on the grounds upon which the abrogation of paragraph A would in practice be of but trifling consequence as regards French imports.
Be pleased, etc.,