Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1924, Volume II

811.5241 d/7

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Kellogg) to the Secretary of State

London, January 26, 1925.
[Received February 6.]

No. 1019

Sir: Referring to the Department’s instruction No. 414 dated October 31, 1924,⁷³ I have the honor to enclose copies, in triplicate, of a note dated November 17, 1924, which the Embassy addressed to the Foreign Office, and the latter’s reply dated December 12, 1924, concerning the application to the Irish Free State of the provisions of the Property Convention concluded between the United States and Great Britain on March 2, 1899.⁷⁴ 1 am informed by the Foreign Office that His Majesty’s Government have no objection to the publication of this exchange of notes.

I have [etc.]

For the Ambassador:

F. A. Sterling

Counselor of Embassy

[Enclosure 1]

The American Ambassador (Kellogg) to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Chamberlain)

London, November 17, 1924.

No. 568

Sir: Under instructions of my Government I have the honor to enquire whether, as a result of the creation of the Irish Free State, the British Government consider that the provisions of the Property Convention of March 2, 1899, are still binding on Ireland without notice, as provided for by Article 4, Paragraph l.⁷⁵

I have [etc.]

Frank B. Kellogg

[Enclosure 2]

The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Chamberlain) to the American Ambassador (Kellogg)

[London,] 12th December, 1924.

No. A6753/984/45

Your Excellency, With reference to Your Excellency’s note of November 17th, I have the honour to inform you that the establishment of the Irish Free State is not regarded as affecting the position in connection with the applicability to Ireland of the convention of the 2nd March, 1899, relative to the disposal of real and personal property.

I have [etc.]

(For the Secretary of State)

G. R. Warner

73. Not printed.
74. Malloy, Treaties, 1776–1909, vol. i, p. 774.
75. The paragraph reads: “The stipulations of the present Convention shall not be applicable to any of the Colonies or foreign possessions of Her Britannic Majesty unless notice to that effect shall have been given, on behalf of any such Colony or foreign possession by Her Britannic Majesty’s Representative at Washington to the United States Secretary of State, within one year from the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the present Convention.”