Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1918

File No. 711.5112/64a

The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador ( Jusserand)

Washington, February 13, 1918.

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I enclose herewith a draft² of an agreement extending indefinitely the arbitration convention of February 10, 1908, between the United States and France.

If you find the draft acceptable and will kindly furnish me with the French equivalent of the English text, I shall be glad to have the agreement at once prepared for signature and to fix the time for its signature.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing

2. Draft not printed.