Office of the Historian

File No. 351.117/106

Chargé Bliss to the Secretary of State

No. 3882
American Embassy,
Paris, November 4, 1916.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith a copy and translation of a note received from the Foreign Office to the effect that they have been notified by the Minister of War that Mr. Armand Robert Garrot was discharged from the French Army as “Réformé No. 2” under date of September 7 last.

I have [etc.]

Robert Woods Bliss
[Inclosure—Translation]

The Minister of Foreign Affairs to Chargé Bliss

Foreign Office,
Paris, November 3, 1916.

Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: In answer to your letters of June 17 and 28 and September 1 last, I have the honor to inform you, in accordance with a communication from the Minister of War, that trooper Armand Garrot was discharged as “Réformé No. 2” under date of September 7 last.

The interested party belonged to the auxiliary service; he is, therefore, by virtue of the law of August 17, 1915, definitely released from military duty. Consequently nothing can now oppose his acquiring American naturalization.

Accept [etc.]

J. Cambon