File No. 659.119/280
The Danish Minister ( Brun) to the Secretary of State
[Received May 13.]
Sir: I have the honor to inform you that pursuant to cable-advice received yesterday from the Danish Minister of Foreign Affairs the following five gentlemen will sail from Copenhagen today by the S. S. Hellig Olav, and travel to Washington in order to assist in the final negotiation and conclusion of a general shipping and trade arrangement between Denmark and the United States. The five gentlemen are:
- (1)
- Mr. M. J. C. T. Clan, Chief of the Commercial Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
- (2)
- Mr. A. O. Andersen, Vice-Chairman of the Danish Chartering Committee;
- (3)
- Mr. Karl Reinhard, member of the Danish Chartering Committee;
- (4)
- Mr. Harald Nielsen, Secretary General of the Committee of the Danish Business Associations; and
- (5)
- Mr. Hohne, Secretary of the United Steamship Company of Copenhagen.
In the sending of these prominent Danish gentlemen to Washington at this time I beg that you will see a new expression of the importance which Denmark attaches to the maintenance and development of its trade relations with the United States and to the conclusion of the arrangement for which the negotiations have, as you know, been conducted here since the summer of 1917.
I hope that I may have an opportunity of introducing these gentlemen to you upon their arrival, and I beg that such orders may be issued to the Collector of Customs and other officials at New York, which will facilitate their landing at that port with their baggage and effects.
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