Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1920, Volume I

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Relations of the United States with the Supreme Council and the Conference of Ambassadors (Documents 1-9)
Convocation by President Wilson of the Council and the Assembly of the League of Nations (Documents 10-20)
Drafting of the statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice—Transmission of the statute and the protocol of signature to President Wilson (Documents 21-30)
Appointment of an American representative on the Aland Islands Commission of the Council of the League of Nations (Documents 31-39)
The Teschen dispute between Poland and Czechoslovakia (Documents 40-76)
- Proposal by the Conference of Ambassadors to settle the dispute by arbitration—Decision by the Allied Governments to assume directly the responsibility of making delimitations—Agreement of July 28, 1920, between the representatives of Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Principal Allied Powers providing for a settlement—Desire of the United States to have a voice in the final settlement, but without signing the agreement of July 28; assent of the Allied Powers (Documents 40-76)
Treaty between the United States and other powers relating to Spitzbergen (Documents 77-89)
International Financial Conference at Brussels, September 24 to October 8, 1920 (Documents 90-101)
- Invitation, April 15, by the Council of the League of Nations to the Government of the United States to participate in the Conference; acceptance, May 28, by the United States—Reports of committees (Documents 90-101)
International Conference on Electrical Communications (Documents 102-158)
- Invitation, February 10, 1920, by the United States to a preliminary conference of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers at Washington—Invitation, March 30, to a subsequent general conference; indefinite postponement of the general conference (Documents 102-139)
- Opening of the preliminary conference, October 8—Question of the status of cables in time of war—Modus vivendi regarding the disposition of former German cables—Adjournment December 14—Reports of subcommittees11 (Documents 140-158)
Central American Conference (Documents 159-171)
- Proposal by Salvador, June 24, 1920, for a conference to frame a plan of union—Attitude of the Governments regarding the treaties of 1907—Opening of the conference at San José, December 4—Attitude of the United States (Documents 159-171)
Convention for the Control of the Trade in Arms and Ammunition, September 10, 1919 (Documents 172-192)
Abrogation of treaties and provisions of treaties which conflicted with the Seamen’s Act of March 4, 191563 (Documents 193-205)
- Belgium: Termination as of July 1, 1917, of the treaty of January 24, 1891, between the United States and the Independent State of the Congo (Documents 193-194)
- Sweden: Termination of articles XI and XII of the consular convention of June 1, 191069 (Documents 195-205)
Denunciation by Guatemala and Nicaragua of the convention of August 20, 1910, concerning the protection of trade marks76 (Documents 206-210)
Interpretation of the Monroe Doctrine (Documents 211-213)
Visit of the Secretary of State to Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina (Documents 214-227)
Relief in Central Europe (Documents 228-295)
- Assistance to Poland in combating typhus—Consideration by the United States and the Allied Powers of measures of relief in Austria—Establishment of American relief warehouses—Sales on credit by the United States Grain Corporation—Intimation to the German Government of the necessity for political stability as a condition of relief—Unofficial participation by the United States in the Austrian section of the Reparation Commission—Admission to the United States of Polish child refugees from Siberia (Documents 228-295)
Boundary disputes (Documents 296-321)
- The Dominican Republic and Haiti: Proposal by the Military Governor of Santo Domingo to the President of Haiti for settlement by a commission—Revival of the arrangement of 1895 for arbitration by the Pope—Protocol of agreement (Documents 296-311)
- Guatemala and Honduras:58 Failure of mediation by the Secretary of State during conferences at Washington (Documents 312-321)
Conference at Amapala between the Presidents of Honduras and Nicaragua—Agreement of November 17, 192072 (Documents 322-329)
The Tacna–Arica question79 (Documents 330-367)
- Assertion of Bolivia’s claim to a port on the Pacific; denial of the claim by Peru—Anti-Peruvian disorders in Bolivia, March 14, 1920—Efforts of the United States to avert developments endangering peace—Unsuccessful attempt by Chile to open negotiations with Peru—Projects for submitting the question to the League of Nations (Documents 330-367)
Petroleum exploitation99 (Documents 368-370)
- Report to the Senate relative to restrictions imposed by certain foreign countries—Attitude of the Department of State toward monopolies in foreign countries (Documents 368-370)

The minutes of the Conference and of its subcommittees are not printed.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, pp. 47–73.↩
For previous correspondence, see Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, pp. 67 ff.↩
For text of convention, see Foreign Relations, 1910, p. 53.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, pp. 85–114.↩
For previous correspondence concerning the boundary dispute between Honduras and Nicaragua, see Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, pp. 114 ff; for correspondence concerning revolutionary invasions, see ibid., 1920, vol. ii, pp. 854 ff.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, pp. 123–163.↩
Continued from Foreign Relations, 1919, vol. i, pp. 163–171.↩

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