611.6831/33
The Consul General at Athens (Lowrie) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 1.]
Sir: I have the honor to inform the Department that a Royal Decree published in the Government Gazette of May 11/24, Volumne 1, No. 81, five copies of which are transmitted herewith, ratifies the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between the United States and Greece. The decree is translated as follows:—
“Royal Decree 2: Regarding the ratification by His Majesty the King of the signing at Washington on October 5/18, 1920, of the convention for the modification of Article XVII, of the Treaty of Commerce between Greece and the United States.
Constantine King of the Hellenes, We declare that there having been contracted at Washington, on October 5/18, 1920, a convention modifying Article XVII of the convention of Commerce and Navigation whose text follows:
(Said text has been published in the Government Gazette No. 68, Volumne 1, dated April 26/9 May, 1921.)
We accept, approve and sanction this convention in all its conditions, promising to observe said convention faithfully, as well as our heirs and the crown’s successors, and not to transgress same and neither to permit its transgression by others.
In proof of the above We have signed and promulgated same and have ordered it to be sealed by Our Kingdom’s seal.
Done in Athens the twenty-ninth day of April (May 14 [12]), 1921.
Constantine B.,
The Minister of Foreign Affairs,
G. Baltadzis”
I have [etc.]