839.00/2584: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Commissioner in the Dominican Republic (Welles)
4. Your September 2, 9 A.M.
The Department perceives no objection to proposed changes 2 and 3 except that portion of change 3 after sub-quotation should read [Page 51] “the two Governments concerned agree in interpreting this stipulation in the sense that in accordance with article 3 of the convention of 1907 et cetera With regard to proposed change 1, however, the Department would feel it necessary to insist upon the following reservation, to be added as final phrase of article:
“Subject, however, to the right of diplomatic intervention in appropriate cases and in accordance with the generally accepted rules and principles of international law”.