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

File No. 711.5112/63a

The Secretary of State to the French Ambassador ( Jusserand)

Washington, February 21, 1918.

My Dear Mr. Ambassador: It having been finally determined to extend the arbitration convention of February 10, 1908, for a further period of five years instead of indefinitely, I beg to enclose herewith a new draft² in English of the proposed agreement and to request that if you find it satisfactory you will kindly supply me with the French equivalent.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing

2. Draft not printed.