Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

Ambassador O’Brien to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram.]

American Embassy,
Tokyo, August 19, 1910.

See memorandum with my 1160, May 10 last. Japanese Government unable to reconcile additional protocol with their recommendation. Do you understand that under it and independently of constitutional difficulties Japan has the right to limit recourse against her in international court to action for damages? Right of reservation seems not to be general.

O’Brien.