Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister.

No. 32.]

Department of State,
Washington, August 15, 1912.

Sir: The Department has received your despatch No. 59 of July 26, 1912, and appreciates the success with which you have concluded the series of long-standing discriminations against American lubricating oil in Belgium. You are directed to express the thanks of this Government to the Belgian Government for removing these only remaining instances of commercial discrimination against the United States.

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.