DECLARATION

In proceeding this day to the signature of the Convention respecting the cession of the Danish West-Indian Islands to the United States of America, the undersigned Secretary of State of the United States of America, duly authorized by his Government, has the honor to declare that the Government of the United States of America will not object to the Danish Government extending their political and economic interests to the whole of Greenland.

Robert Lansing

New York, August 4, 1916.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1917/d881

https://www.detailedpedia.com/wiki-Treaty_of_the_Danish_West_Indies

https://www.diis.dk/en/research/colonial-past-and-the-us-wish-to-buy-greenland

(Undertegnede, statsministeren i USA, med nødvendig tillatelse fra Regjeringen, har æren av å erklære at USA’s regjering ikke vil protestere mot at den danske regjering utvider sine politiske og økonomiske interesser til hele Grønland.)