500.C114/445hh
The Costa Rican Minister ( Oreamuno ) to the Secretary of State
Mr. Secretary: I have had the honor to receive and to forward to my Government the note of the 12th of February of this year by which your Excellency was pleased to inform me that on January 27 the Senate of the United States had given its advice and consent to the adhesion of the United States to the Protocol of Signature to the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice of the 16th of December, 1920, and the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice without accepting or agreeing to the elective clause of obligatory jurisdiction contained in the said Statute on the condition that the Powers that had signed the Protocol would accept the conditions, reservations and understandings set forth in the resolution of the Senate on the subject.
[Page 8]In this connection your Excellency wants to know whether my Government accepts the conditions, reservations and understandings to the said resolution.
The Government of Costa Rica will cease to be a member of the League of Nations on January 1, 1927, and, taking into account that that date is very close, it has instructed me to say to your Excellency that it does not believe it is its duty to decide in regard to the desired acceptance.
Be pleased [etc.]