500.C114/445cc
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Houghton) to the Secretary of
State
London, April 25,
1927.
[Received May 5.]
No. 1811
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the
Department’s instruction No. 742 of November 12, 1926, by which the
Embassy is directed to transmit a memorandum, with its enclosure, to the
British Foreign Office with the request that it be forwarded to the
British Diplomatic Representative in Abyssinia for presentation to the
Abyssinian Government on behalf of the United States. The memorandum and
its enclosure referred to the Senate Resolution of January 27, 1926, in
connection with the adherence of the United States to the Protocol of
Signature of the Statute for the Permanent Court of International
Justice.
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I now have the honor to inform you that the Department’s instructions
were promptly carried out. I beg to forward herewith a copy, in
triplicate, of an informal note from the Foreign Office together with
its enclosure, being a copy of a note from the Government of Abyssinia
to the British Minister at Addis Ababa.
I have [etc.]
For the Ambassador:
F. A.
Sterling
Counselor of
Embassy[Enclosure]
Mr. R. L.
Craigie, of the American and African Department,
British Foreign Office, to the Counselor of the American
Embassy (Sterling)
Foreign Office, S. W. 1., 22
April, 1927.
No. W3450/62/98
Dear Sterling: With reference to my letter
of the 26th November last,39 I enclose a copy of a note addressed by the
Abyssinian Government to our Minister at Addis Ababa on the subject
of the reservations attached by the United States Government to
their accession to the protocol of the Permanent Court of
International Justice.
Yours sincerely,
[Subenclosure]
The Regent of Ethiopia (Ras Taffari) to the British Minister in Ethiopia
(Bentinck)
Addis Ababa, 21
March, 1927.
No. 147
After Greetings: I have received your
letter of February 24th 1927 regarding the note from the United
States Government on the subject of the Protocol of Permanent Court
of International Justice. As we have asked certain questions from
the Secretariat of the League of Nations and it is necessary for us
to wait for the answer, we are unable to give you the right answer
to your letter. I have therefore to inform you that it is impossible
to give you a definite reply on the subject at the present
moment.40
