711.62119/50: Telegram

The Commissioner at Berlin (Dresel) to the Secretary of State

688. Department’s 1380 [1381], August 24, noon. Signature will take place at 5 p.m. this afternoon. Rosen is sole person authorized to sign and he has exhibited full powers which I have approved. My description is “Ellis Loring Dresel, Commissioner of the United States of America to Germany.” Rosen’s description is “Dr. Friedrich Rosen, Minister for Foreign Affairs.”

As foreshadowed by my 675, August 19, 5 p.m.,15 I agreed to substitution of word “are” for word “embrace” in subdivision 1 of article II. The clause authorized by Department’s 1350, August 8, 6 p.m., follows this subdivision 1 and as in the original draft contains the words “mentioned in this paragraph.”

In my 682, August 23, 5 p.m., the first sentence containing discussion of part XIII of the Versailles Treaty was apparently garbled. After the word “occur [red]” the two following words should read “against the” instead of the words “after sending”. This presumably makes the difficulty clear.

After conversation with Dr. Rosen he agrees to discard statement beginning “after detailed exchange of views” and ending “Versailles Treaty” and to substitute therefor a literal translation of the passage in Department’s 1376, August 20, 6 p.m., under second paragraph of point 2 beginning “This Government construes” and ending “proposed treaty”. I trust this will be considered satisfactory.

Dresel
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