711.62119/91a
The Secretary of State to the Commissioner at Berlin (Dresel)
Sir: There is transmitted in the pouch with this instruction a package containing the President’s instruments of ratification20 of the Treaty between the United States and Germany, signed at Berlin on August 25, 1921, which you will exchange for the like ratification on the part of Germany; also the President’s full power20 authorizing you to effect the exchange and a form of protocol20 attesting the exchange which you are to sign in duplicate with the German plenipotentiary at the time of making the exchange. Before proceeding to the exchange you should be careful to see that both texts of the Treaty as contained in the German instrument of ratification conform with the two texts of the Treaty as contained in the instrument of ratification of the United States.
As soon as the exchange shall have been effected you will please inform me of the fact by cable, stating in your telegram the date of the exchange and the date of the German instrument of ratification. The German instrument of ratification and the American copy of the signed protocol of exchange should be promptly forwarded by you to the Department.
Should any question be raised by the German Government with respect to the form of the Resolution by which the Senate gave advice and consent to the ratification of the Treaty, you will readily be able to make a satisfactory explanation to remove any possible misapprehension regarding the matter. The terms of the Resolution with respect to participation of the United States in any agency or commission under the treaty of course relate merely to matters of domestic policy and procedure which are of no concern to the German Government. The Senate expressed their understanding in the Resolution, evidently out of abundance of caution, that the rights and advantages which the United States is entitled to have and enjoy under the Treaty embrace the rights and advantages of nationals of the United States specified in the Joint Resolution of Congress of July 2, 1921,21 and in the Treaty of Versailles. Negotiations with reference to the Treaty show that there has been no question between the contracting parties with regard to this obviously correct construction, [Page 28] and the understanding of the Senate as expressed in their Resolution is of course in no way at variance with the terms of the Treaty.
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