711.5821/48

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Sweden (Wheeler)

No. 619

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 1824, dated October 21, 1919, with which you enclose a copy of a note from your Legation dated June 21, 1915, addressed to the Foreign Office, and apparently based on the Department’s instruction of May 29, 1915. You call attention to the fact that the Legation’s note gave notice of this Government’s “intention to abrogate Articles 11 and 12 of the Treaty of June 1, 1910, with Sweden,” and you state that the records fail to show why reference is made in this note to the above mentioned Articles of the Treaty of 1910, instead of to Articles 13 and 14 of the Treaty of July 4, 1827.

Your attention is invited to the fact that the Department’s records indicate that two instructions were sent to the Legation on May 29, 1915, substantially the same except that the first referred to certain Articles of the Treaty of 1910, and the second to certain Articles of the Treaty of 1827.

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You are instructed to report whether a note was addressed by the Legation to the Foreign Office in regard to the abrogation of Articles 13 and 14 of the Treaty of 1827, and in accordance with the second mentioned instruction of May 29, 1915.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Alvey A. Adee