611.6831/43: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Greece (Laughlin)
80. Your 100, October 25, 4 p.m.12 The Department has just transmitted to the Chargé d’Affaires of Greece the following note:
[Here follows text of note of November 6, printed supra, and text of the note drafted for the proposed exchange.]
The Chargé has been informed that you are being instructed to deliver a copy of this draft note to the Foreign Office. You may explain orally that the Department desires at an early date to enter into a comprehensive treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights with Greece. There is pending before the Senate a com-mercial treaty signed with Germany on December 8, 1923,13 the terms of which the Department desires to incorporate in treaties with other countries. Accordingly it is deemed necessary to await the approval of this treaty by the Senate before negotiating similar treaties with other countries. Modi vivendi similar to that now proposed with Greece have recently been concluded with Brazil,14 Czechoslovakia,15 Dominican Republic,16 Guatemala,17 and Nicaragua18 and are under negotiation with several other countries both American and European. See Monthly Political Reports.12
Endeavor to expedite favorable consideration of the proposed exchange of notes and prompt forwarding to Washington of telegraphic instructions by the Greek Government. Report by telegraph all important developments.
- Not printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1923, vol. ii, p. 29.↩
- Ibid., vol. i, pp. 461–463.↩
- Ibid., pp. 873–875.↩
- Vol. i, pp. 666–670.↩
- Post, pp. 290–292.↩
- Post, pp. 510–517.↩
- Not printed.↩