[Enclosure]
The Secretary of
State to the Secretary General of the League of
Nations (Drummond)
Washington, March 2,
1926.
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the
communication of this Department, dated August 15, 1921,12
acknowledging the receipt of a certified copy of the Protocol of
Signature relating to the Statute of the Permanent Court of
International Justice, and take pleasure
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in informing you that the Senate of the United
States of America, on January 27, 1926, gave its advice and consent
to the adherence on the part of the United States to the Protocol of
Signature of the Statute for the Permanent Court of International
Justice, dated December 16, 1920, and the adjoined Statute for the
Permanent Court of International Justice, without accepting or
agreeing to the Optional Clause for Compulsory Jurisdiction,
contained in the said Statute, on the condition of the acceptance by
the Powers signatory to the Protocol of the conditions, reservations
and understandings contained in the Senate Resolution, which reads
as follows:
[Here follows text of Senate Resolution No. 5, printed ante, page 1.]
I have the honor, therefore, to inform you that the signature of the
United States will not be affixed to said Protocol until the
Governments of the Powers signatory thereto shall have signified in
writing to the Government of the United States their acceptance of
the foregoing conditions, reservations and understandings as a part
and a condition to the adherence of the United States to the said
Protocol and Statute.
I have addressed a communication to the representative of each of the
Governments of the Powers signatories of the Protocol asking these
several Governments to be good enough to ascertain and to inform me
in writing whether they will accept the conditions, reservations and
understandings contained in the resolution as a part and condition
of the adherence of the United States to the said protocol and
statute.
Accept [etc.]
