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Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1926, Volume II

Editor:

Joseph V. Fuller

General Editor:

Tyler Dennett

United States Government Printing Office

Washington

1941

List of Papers
Colombia:
- Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Colombia (Documents 1-2)
- Statement by the Colombian Government that it could not become a party to an arbitration of the Colon fire claims (Documents 3-5)
- Boundary dispute with Peru
Costa Rica:
- Boundary dispute with Panama
Cuba:
- Proposal by Cuba that the commercial convention between the United States and Cuba, signed December 11, 1902, be revised (Documents 6-10)
- Convention between the United States and Cuba for the prevention of smuggling of intoxicating liquors, signed March 4, 1926 (Documents 11-13)
- Convention between the United States and Cuba for the suppression of smuggling, signed March 11, 1926 (Document 14)
- Consular convention between the United States and Cuba, signed April 22, 1926 (Document 15)
- Additional extradition treaty between the United States and Cuba, signed January 14, 1926 (Document 16)
- Disinclination of the United States to conclude a trade marks convention with Cuba as proposed by the Cuban Government (Documents 17-19)
Dominican Republic:
- Consent by the United States to the emission of bond issue of $10,000,000 by the Dominican Government (Documents 20-30)
- Boundary dispute with Haiti
Ecuador:
- Good offices of the American Minister on behalf of Chinese in Ecuador (Documents 31-32)
Egypt:
- Efforts by the United States to protect the interests of American archeologists in Egypt (Documents 33-46)
- Representations by Great Britain against the exercise by American consular courts in Egypt of jurisdiction over seamen of British nationality on American vessels (Documents 47-50)
Estonia:
- Agreement between the United States and Estonia regarding mutual recognition of ship measurement certificates (Documents 51-53)
France:
- Efforts to obtain ratification of debt agreement between the United States and France, signed April 29, 1926 (Documents 54-74)
- Failure of effort of the American Government to secure agreement with the French Government on a naturalization treaty (Documents 75-76)
- Failure of the United States to secure a convention with France relating to letters rogatory (Documents 77-85)
- Efforts to reach an understanding with France for reciprocal recognition of American and French legislation regarding inspection of vessels (Documents 86-89)
- Exemption of American business firms in Madagascar from payment of special taxes (Documents 90-93)
- Precautions by the United States for the safety of Americans during the Syrian insurrection (Documents 94-103)
Germany:
- Insistence of the United States on its rights to priority payments for costs of army of occupation under the agreement of January 14, 1925 (Documents 104-112)
- Rejection by arbitrators of claim of the Standard Oil Company to the D. A. P. G. tankers (Documents 113-121)
- Policy of the Department of State regarding American bankers’ loans to German states and municipalities (Documents 122-126)
- Objection by the Department of State to proposed loan by Lee, Higginson & Company to the German Potash Syndicate (Documents 127-134)
Great Britain:
- Claims of American citizens against Great Britain arising out of the war, 1914–1918 (Documents 135-169)
- Claim of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey against the British Government for the destruction of property in Rumania in 1916 (Documents 170-174)
- Cooperation of the British Government with the American Government to prevent liquor smuggling into the United States (Documents 175-184)
- Efforts by the United States to obtain for American rubber manufacturers relief from British restrictions on the export of raw rubber (Document 185)
- Continued negotiations to ensure recognition of the principle of the Open Door in the Turkish Petroleum Company’s concession in Iraq (Documents 186-195)
Greece:
- Refusal of the United States to join in representations to Greece regarding alleged violations of the loan agreement of February 10, 1918 (Documents 196-201)
- Representations by the United States against the nonexemption of American consular officers in Greece from the provisions of the forced loan of 1926 (Documents 202-211)
Guatemala:
- Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Guatemala (Documents 212-215)
Haiti:
- Temporary withdrawal of United States war vessels from Haitian waters because of presidential election (Documents 216-220)
- Visit of President Borno of Haiti to the United States (Documents 221-225)
- Agreement between the United States and Haiti according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed July 8, 1926 (Documents 226-232)
- Commercial convention between France and Haiti, signed July 29, 1926 (Documents 233-239)
- Promise by the United States not to raise certain objections to the claims agreement between France and Haiti, signed June 12, 1925 (Documents 240-250)
- Support by the United States of Haitian refusal to arbitrate with France the question of paying interest in gold on gold loan of 1910 (Documents 251-257)
- Boundary dispute with the Dominican Republic
Honduras:
- Amends by the Government of Honduras for violation of the American consular premises at Ceiba (Documents 258-265)
Italy:
- Arrangement between the United States and Italy granting relief from double income tax on shipping profits (Documents 266-267)
- Right of American citizens when arrested to communicate with American consular officers (Documents 268-269)
- Permission for flight over territory of the United States by an Italian naval hydroplane (Documents 270-271)
Japan:
- Arrangement between the United States and Japan granting relief from double income tax on shipping profits (Documents 272-285)
- Proposal by Japan that a conference be called to revise the fur seals convention, signed July 7, 1911 (Documents 286-296)
- Suits in Japanese courts against United States Shipping Board (Documents 297-299)
Latvia:
- Provisional commercial agreement between the United States and Latvia according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed February 1, 1926 (Documents 300-321)
Liberia:
- Negotiations concerning the Firestone rubber concessions and the Finance Corporation of America loan (Documents 322-369)
- Arbitration convention between the United States and Liberia, signed February 10, 1926 (Documents 370-372)
- Steps taken toward completing the delimitation of the Franco-Liberian boundary (Documents 373-374)
Mexico:
- Representations by the United States against Mexican agrarian and petroleum legislation (Documents 375-389)
- Representations by the United States against the orders of June 8 and August 24, 1926, relative to provisional permits to drill oil wells (Documents 390-403)
- Reservation by the United States of the rights of American citizens which may be affected by the Mexican law of colonization of April 5, 1926 (Documents 404-405)
- Reservation by the United States of the rights of American citizens which may be affected by the Mexican decree of April 8, 1926, regarding the restitution and dotation of waters (Documents 406-407)
- Good offices of the Department of State in behalf of American citizens adversely affected by Mexican religious legislation (Documents 408-411)
- Renewed negotiations for a settlement of the dispute over the Rio Grande boundary (Documents 412-417)
Morocco:
- Attitude of the United States toward proposed changes in the status of Tangier (Documents 418-441)
- Reservation of American rights with respect to proposed changes in the administration of Cape Spartel Light (Documents 442-449)
- Discontinuance of the extraordinary French and Spanish joint naval vigilance off the coast of Morocco (Document 450)
Netherlands:
- Arrangement between the United States and the Netherlands granting relief from double income tax on shipping profits (Documents 451-453)
- Proposal to allocate to the Netherlands Government the former German Yap-Menado cable (Documents 454-467)
Nicaragua:
- Efforts by the United States to preserve constitutional government in Nicaragua (Documents 468-529)
Norway:
- Statement by Norway of its paramount interest in the Island of Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean (Documents 530-533)
Panama:
- Unperfected treaty between the United States and Panama for settlement of points of difference, signed July 28, 1926 (Documents 534-535)
- Proposals by Panama to modify the unperfected treaty between the United States and Panama, signed July 28, 1926 (Documents 536-542)
- Claims convention between the United States and Panama, signed July 28, 1926 (Document 543)
- Boundary dispute with Costa Rica
Paraguay:
- Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Paraguay (Documents 544-547)
- Boundary dispute with Bolivia
Persia:
- Decision that when change of regime necessitates new credentials, precedence of diplomats of same rank is determined by date of original reception (Documents 548-549)
Peru:
- Boundary dispute with Colombia
- Tacna-Arica question
Portugal:
- Efforts by the United States in behalf of American holders of Portuguese tobacco monopoly bonds (Documents 550-581)
Rumania:
- Agreement between the United States and Rumania according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed February 26, 1926 (Document 582)
- Representations by the United States against Rumanian legislation regarding subsoil rights in lands held in perpetual lease (Documents 583-586)
Russia:
- Disapproval of flotation in the United States of German loans to be used to advance credits to the Soviet regime (Documents 587-590)
- Refusal of visa for appointed Soviet Minister to Mexico to enter the United States en route to her post (Documents 591-593)
Salvador:
- Treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Salvador, signed February 22, 1926 (Documents 594-623)
Spain:
- Convention between the United States and Spain for the prevention of smuggling of intoxicating liquors, signed February 10, 1926 (Documents 624-632)
Switzerland:
- Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Switzerland (Documents 633-635)
- Termination of representation of Swiss interests in Egypt by American diplomatic and consular officers (Documents 636-641)
Turkey:
- Efforts by the Department of State to obtain ratification of the general treaty between the United States and Turkey, signed at Lausanne, August 6, 1923 (Documents 642-654)
- Agreements between the United States and Turkey according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed February 18 and July 20, 1926 (Documents 655-667)
- Participation of the High Commissioner in Turkey in collective note requesting exemption of diplomatic and consular officers from consumption and other special taxes (Documents 668-671)
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