711.5812/42
The Secretary of State to the Swedish Minister (Wallenberg)
Sir: In connection with the signing today of a Convention of Arbitration between the United States and Sweden, providing for the submission of differences of certain classes which may arise between the two Governments to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague under the Conventions for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes concluded in 1899 and 1907, I have the honor to state the following understanding which I shall be glad to have you confirm on behalf of your Government.
On February 24, 1923, the President proposed to the Senate that it consent under certain stated conditions to the adhesion by the United States to the Protocol of December 16, 1920, under which the Permanent Court of International Justice was created at The Hague. In the event that the Senate gives its assent to the proposal, I under [Page 704] stand that the Government of Sweden will not be averse to considering a modification of the Convention of Arbitration which we are concluding, or the making of a separate agreement, under which the disputes mentioned in the Convention could be referred to the Permanent Court of International Justice.
Accept [etc.]