File No. 711.5914/238
The Secretary of State to the Danish Minister
Washington, October 12, 1916.
My dear Mr. Minister: In reply to your letter of October 6th, enclosing copies of notes exchanged between the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs and Mr. Egan with regard to the Danish National Church in the Danish West Indies, and suggesting that the English text of the reply of the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs be used in the notes which pass between yourself and the Department as referred to in the Department’s letter of the 5th instant to you, I beg to inform you that I perceive no objection to your note being written in the English language. As I suggested in my recent note to you, it would seem best to defer the proposed exchange of notes until we are ready to exchange the ratifications of the treaty of cession.
I am [etc.]