CO129-491 - Public Offices - 1925 — Page 5

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FOREIGN OFFICE, S.W.1.

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Your Excellency,

I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of

Your Excellency's note of the 18th May, in which you

informed me that by an Act of Congress of January 13th,

1925, it was provided that agents of the Customs Division

of the United States Treasury Department stationed abroad

should be regularly and officially attached to the United

States Diplomatic Missions under the title of Customs

Attachés. In the same note you further informed me of the

appointment of one Customs Attaché and four Assistant

Customs Attachés as members of your diplomatic staff and

requested that they should be accorded recognition by His Majesty's Government in their respective capacities.

In a subsequent note dated June 11th you notified to me the appointment of a fifth Assistant Customs Attaché for

whom recognition was also requested,

2.

I have the honour to inform you that His

Majesty's Government much regret that they are unable to accede to the request of your government for recognition of the agents as members, of the Diplomatic Body in this capital. It is the practice of His Majesty's Government to accord diplomatic privilege to foreign representatives in this country for the purpose of carrying out diplomatic duties. His Majesty's Government further extend the diplomatic privilege to such members of the staff of a foreign representative as may be required to assist him

It does not seem from the in carrying out these duties.

IS EXCELLENCY

THE HONOURABLE ALANSON B. HOUGHTON,

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