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Memorandum by the Assistant Secretary of State (Sayre)
Mr. Offerdahl5 called on behalf of the Minister who is at present confined in bed with a cold. He came to inform the Department that he had just received a cable from his Government to the effect that it considered the proposed language of the Connally Amendment to the pending Revenue Bill, imposing a processing tax upon various oils, including whale oil, as a violation of Article VIII of the Treaty between Norway and the United States.6 I informed him that the State Department had taken every step to secure the incorporation in the pending bill of language to protect treaty rights but that the final phrasing of the act depends, of course, upon Congress. I told him that the State Department will not cease to make every effort to protect treaty rights.
- Leonhard Offerdahl, First Secretary of the Norwegian Legation.↩
- Treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights, signed June 5, 1928, Foreign Relations, 1928, vol iii, p. 646.↩