File No. 702.6211/265b

The Secretary of State to the German Ambassador ( Bernstorff )

No. 2291

Excellency: This Department is in receipt of information from the Department of Justice that Mr. Franz Bopp, Consul General of your Government at San Francisco, Calif., has been indicted and convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California for violation of the criminal laws of the United States.

Under these circumstances, it is my regrettable duty to inform you that Mr. Franz Bopp has ceased to be persona grata in the office of Consul General of Germany at San Francisco.

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I have the honor, therefore, to enclose the formal revocation and annulment of the exequatur issued to him in that capacity.1 The appropriate officers of this Government have this date been informed of this action and I shall be obliged if you will make it known to Mr. Bopp.

I shall be further obliged if, in communicating this information to your Government, you will be so good as to express the Department’s regret at this occasion which makes its action necessary and to announce the pleasure with which the Department will receive a request from your Government for the recognition of a new consul general at San Francisco.

Accept [etc.]

Robert Lansing
  1. Not printed.