500.A4a/82: Telegram
The Ambassador in Japan (Warren) to the Secretary of State
[Received 3:45 p.m.]
129. Referring to Department’s number 80, July 28, 1 p.m. I sent following to Foreign Minister, dated August 1st:
“In my note number 129, dated May 8, 1922,65 I had the honor to inform Your Excellency that my Government is ready to deposit ratification of the Four-Power Treaty signed at Washington, December 13, 1921, and the supplementary treaty signed at Washington February 6, 1922, subject to the reservations and understandings set out in my note; and that my Government upon being informed of the readiness of the other signatory governments to deposit their ratifications will be pleased to fix a date for the depositing of ratifications as stipulated in the treaties.
In our conversations the question has arisen as to the readiness of the President to ratify and deposit ratification of the treaties concluded at the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments to the ratification of which as you were advised in my note dated May 8, 1922, the Senate of the United States had consented.
[Page 382]I now have the honor to advise you that I am authorized by my Government to inform you that the President is ready to deposit ratification of all the treaties concluded at the Conference upon being advised of the readiness of the other signatory governments to deposit their ratifications; and that my Government when so advised will be pleased to fix a date for the depositing of ratifications as stipulated in the treaties.
As stated in our recent conversation I will be pleased to receive from Your Excellency for transmission to my Government the information that the Imperial Japanese Government is similarly ready to deposit its ratifications of the four power treaty, the supplementary treaty and the treaties concluded at the Conference on the Limitation of Armaments.”
In reply I received following from the Minister for Foreign Affairs, dated August 5th:
“In your note number 181 under date of the 1st instant Your Excellency has informed me that the President of the United States is ready to ratify and deposit ratifications of the Four-Power Treaty signed at Washington December 13, 1921, and the supplementary agreement to the said treaty signed at Washington February 6, 1922, subject to the reservations and understandings set out in Your Excellency’s note number 129, dated May 8, 1922, as well as all other treaties concluded at the Conference of Washington on the Limitation of Armaments without any modification nor reservation; and that the President upon being informed of the readiness [of] the other signatory powers to deposit their ratifications will be pleased to fix a date for depositing the ratifications as stipulated in the treaties.
I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that all the treaties above mentioned having been ratified on the part of this country on the 5th instant the Japanese Government have immediately taken steps to forward the instruments of ratification to the Japanese Chargé d’Affaires at Washington and consequently that they are ready to proceed with the deposit of the ratifications as soon as they shall be informed that the Resident has fixed a date for that purpose according to the stipulations of the respective treaties upon being advised of the readiness of all other signatory governments to effect the like deposit as stated in Your Excellency’s note of the 1st instant.”