754.60 c 12/1
The Acting Secretary of State to the Polish Minister (Wróblewski)33
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of April 15, 1925, in which you inform me that the Government of the Republic of Poland and the Government of the Swiss Republic signed in Bern on March 7, 1925, a Treaty of Arbitration, Articles 3 and 14 of which provide for invoking the assistance of the President of the United States under circumstances stated therein. Your note embraces a translation of the text of Articles 3 and 14 of that treaty.
[Page 211]You inform me that, acting under instructions from your Government, you inquire if it is agreeable in principle to the President of the United States that the parties should so provide for invoking the assistance of the President in the circumstances described in Articles 3 and 14.
It appears therefrom that, under a certain contingency, the Chairman of the Permanent Conciliation Commission shall be designated, at the request of the parties, by the President of the United States of America if he so consents; and also that, under a certain contingency, the selection of the Chairman of the Tribunal of Arbitration which may be established pursuant to the Convention shall be entrusted to the President of the United States, if he so consents.
I have to inform you that the President desires me to thank the Government of Poland, through your good offices, for the courtesy and compliment implied in your inquiry, and to assure you that it is entirely agreeable in principle to him that the parties to the treaty should so provide for invoking the assistance of the President in the circumstances described in Articles 3 and 14.
An identic note is being transmitted to the Swiss Minister at this capital for the information of his Government.
Accept [etc.]
- The same, mutatis mutandis, to the Swiss Minister.↩