500.A4a/162
The Secretary of
State to Ambassador Jusserand, of the French Delegation
Washington
,
January 24,
1922
.
My Dear Mr. Ambassador: I take pleasure in
handing you the form of proposed letter which Baron Shidehara left
with me this morning with respect to the conclusion of an agreement
supplementary to the Quadruple Treaty signed at Washington on
December 13, 1921, together with the text of the proposed
supplementary agreement.
I also hand you herewith a copy of the identic note which it is
proposed that the Four Powers should deliver, through their
Ministers at The Hague, to the Netherlands Government.38
Sincerely yours,
[Enclosure 1]
Draft of a Proposed Note from Ambassador
Shidehara, of the Japanese Delegation, to the Secretary of
State
Sir: Referring to the question of the
applicability to Japan Proper of the term “insular possessions
and insular dominions” used in the Quadruple Treaty signed at
Washington on December 13, 1921, I have the honor to inquire,
under instructions from my Government, whether there is any
objection, so far as the United States is concerned, to the
conclusion of an agreement supplementary [Page 44] to the said Treaty, to the effect that the
term above quoted shall, in its application to Japan, include
only Sakhalin, Formosa and the Pescadores, and the islands under
the mandate of Japan.
Accept [etc.]
[Enclosure 2]
Draft of an Agreement Supplementary to the
Treaty of December 13, 1921, between the United States of
America, the British Empire, France, and Japan
The United States of America, the British Empire, France and
Japan have, through their respective Plenipotentiaries, agreed
upon the following stipulations supplementary to the Quadruple
Treaty signed at Washington on December 13, 1921:—
The term “insular possessions and insular dominions” used in the
aforesaid Treaty shall, in its application to Japan, include
only Sakhalin, Formosa and the Pescadores, and the islands under
the mandate of Japan.
The present agreement shall have the same force and effect as the
said Treaty to which it is supplementary.
