Sir: [The Secretary of State to the Swedish Minister.] DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, November 16, 1915. The time specified in the Treaty of October 13, 1914, between the United States and Sweden, looking to the advancement of the general cause of peace, for the appointment of the International Commission having expired, without the United States non-national Commissioner being named, I have the honor to suggest for the consideration of your Government that the time within which the organization of the Commission may be completed be extended from July 11, 1915 to January 15, 1916. Your formal notification in writing, of the same date as this, that your Government receives the suggestion favorably, will be regarded on this Government's part as sufficient to give effect to the extension, and I shall be glad to receive your assurance that it will be so regarded by your Government also. Accept, Sir, the renewed assurances of my highest consideration. ROBERT LANSING Mr. W. A. F. EKENGREN, The Minister of Sweden. Sir: [The Swedish Minister to the Secretary of State.] LEGATION OF SWEDEN, Washington, D. C. November 16, 1915. I have the honor to inform your Excellency that my Government accepts the suggestion contained in your Excellency's note of today's date that the time specified in the Treaty of the 13th October 1914, between the United States and Sweden, for the appointment of the International Commission therein provided, be extended from July 11, 1915 to January 15, 1916. With renewed assurances of my highest consideration I have the honor to remain your Excellency's most obedient servant. TREATY SERIES, No. 608 TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND DENMARK ADVANCEMENT OF SIGNED AT WASHINGTON, APRIL 17, 1914 RATIFICATION ADVISED BY THE SENATE, SEPTEMBER 30, 1914 RATIFIED BY THE PRESIDENT, JANUARY 14, 1915 RATIFIED BY DENMARK, NOVEMBER 21, 1914 RATIFICATIONS EXCHANGED AT WASHINGTON, JANUARY 19, 1915 WASHINGTON BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas a Treaty between the United States of America and Denmark looking to the advancement of the cause of general peace was concluded and signed by their respective Plenipotentiaries at Washington, on the seventeenth day of April, one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, the original of which Treaty, being in the English and Danish languages, is word for word as follows: |