500. A 4e/274a: Circular telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain ( Moore )63
Please hand following to Minister for Foreign Affairs:
“Excellency. By a note dated May 18, 1922, addressed to His Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Spain,64 my predecessor in the office of Secretary of State of the United States of America, in pursuance of Article 8 of the Treaty relating to the revision of the Chinese Customs Tariff and cognate matters, signed at Washington on February 6, 1922,65 extended to the Government of Spain on behalf of the Government of the United States, acting for all the Government’s, a cordial invitation to adhere to the said Treaty upon its ratification by all the signatory Governments.
The Treaty has now been ratified on all parts and has gone into effect by the deposit with the Government of the United States on [Page 762] August 5, 1925, of the ratifications of all the signatory Governments. I have the honor, therefore, on behalf of the Government of the United States, acting for all signatory Governments, to renew through Your Excellency to the Government of Spain the cordial invitation of my predecessor to adhere to the Treaty, and to express the very great pleasure with which the Government of the United States would learn that such adherence had become effective by the receipt of notice thereof as provided in Article 8 of the Treaty. Accept, Excellency, the assurances of my highest and most distinguished consideration. Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State of the United States of America.”
[The following powers notified the American Government of their adherence to the treaty relating to the revision of the Chinese customs tariff, signed at Washington February 6, 1922: Denmark, August 27, 1925; Sweden, September 11, 1925; Spain, September 21, 1925; and Norway, September 23, 1925.]
- The same, mutatis mutandis, to the American diplomatic representatives in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.↩
- Not printed.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1922, vol. i, p. 282.↩