862.00/383: Telegram

The Minister in the Netherlands ( Garrett ) to the Acting Secretary of State

5420. Dutch press Wolff telegram Berlin 6th:

[“] Document by which ex-Crown Prince gives up rights to crown of Prussia and imperial throne has been received Berlin. Reads as follows:

‘I do hereby expressly resign now and for all time all claims to [the] crown of Prussia and [the] imperial crown which might fall to me either through abdication of His Majesty the Emperor and King or through any other right Given under our own hand and signature at Wieringen on December 1st, 1918. Wilhelm.’[”]

Paris informed.

Garrett