711.62119/17: Telegram
The Commissioner at Berlin (Dresel) to the Secretary of State
[Received 11:09 p.m.]
629. Supplementing my 628, July 22, 8 p.m. Following is text in translation of memorandum enclosed with Rosen’s letter above referred to:
“The German Government learns from the communication of the American Commissioner, Mr. Dresel, that the Government of the United States of America wishes immediately to clear up the situation as between the two nations and establish normal relations. Further, it appears from Mr. Dresel’s communication that the American Government, in order to attain this purpose, desires information as to whether any of the rights, interests and advantages stipulated in the Treaty of Versailles for the benefit of the United States and reserved by the American Government in section 2 of the joint resolution ending the state of war between the United States and Germany, approved by the President of the United States on July 2nd, 1921, will be brought into question by the German Government. The American Government particularly desires to participate in the Reparations Commission, the Commission of Guarantees and such other commissions as it may be interested in; further it attaches special value to the rights stipulated for the benefit of the United States, in part IV, section I, part[s] V, VI, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIV, and XV of the Treaty of Versailles.
In doing so the American Government points out that it cannot enter into a treaty with the German Government which does not [Page 8] clearly protect these rights, interests and advantages. Finally the Government of the United States inquires confidentially if a protocol confirming all above mentioned rights and privileges would be entered into by the German Government.
The German Government unites with the American Government in the desire that the relations between the two states should be cleared up as soon as possible. The German Government believe that Mr. Dresel’s communication justifies the assumption that the Government of the United States of America has not the intention to ratify the Treaty of Versailles. Nevertheless, the German Government in its endeavor to do everything that might be of service for the speedy reestablishment of a normal state of peace between the two nations, is ready to declare that it has not the intention to bring into question the rights, interests and advantages which the American Government wishes to claim by the Treaty of Versailles in connection with the Congressional resolution approved by the President of the United States on July 2nd, 1921.
The German Government also absolutely agrees to the participation of the United States of America in the Reparations Commission, the Commission on Guarantees and such other commissions as it may desire to take part in.
Furthermore, the German Government is in principle ready to confirm by a protocol (after due specification) the rights and privileges which the American Government wishes to specify in detail as growing out of the Treaty of Versailles and the above mentioned Congressional resolution.”