702.1211/1117a
The Acting Secretary of State to the Attorney General of the State of New York (Newton)
Sir: For your information and such use as you may desire to make of this letter, I beg to confirm the following telegram sent by me on this date to The Honorable the Governor of New York:
“The Honorable
The Governor of New
York,
Albany, (New York).
October 31, 1922.
Reference Department’s telegram October 27, concerning litigation instituted in New York Supreme Court Rockland County, by Oliver Trading Company against Mexican authorities.
I beg to request that you will be so good as to ask a law officer of your State to appear before the court at a favorable opportunity to make the following statement upon the authority of the Department of State:
‘The Government of the United States has at present no official relations with the administration now functioning in Mexico. This fact, however, does not affect the recognition of the Mexican State itself, which for years has been recognized by the United States as an “international person”, as that term is understood in international practice. The existing situation simply is that there is no official intercourse between the two States.’
(Signed, William Phillips,
Acting Secretary of
State.)”
I have [etc.]