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, the circumstance that you had
leave last year to visit the
United States brings your
application under the general
rule of the Department by which
such leave is only accorded
at intervals of two or three
years unless some notable
exigency shall appear.

The statutory effect
of formal permission to
visit the United States is to
prolong the officer's absence
from his post for the time
needed to make the transmit {sic}
both ways, and thereby to increase
the charge upon the limited ap-
propriation for compensation
of Secretaries acting as Chargés

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