438.00/130: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Haiti (Jordan)

7. Your 2, January 13, 11 a.m., Department’s 424, August 8, 1921, your 537, September 8, 1921.

You will state informally to the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the suggestion of his Government to the French Minister, communicated to the Department at the latter’s request, is not acceptable to this Government, in view of the assumption in the suggestion that the matter of the organization of the Claims Commission is not governed by the Protocol of October 3, 1919. You may advise the French Minister of this instruction.

Hughes