611.6731/61: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the High Commissioner in Turkey (Bristol)
10. Your No. 8. Department does not consider it advisable to conclude an arrangement whereby the United States would be obligated to observe specific stipulations of an unratified treaty. The exchange of notes proposed in Department’s No. 9 would accomplish the same purpose and would have the advantage of being in conformity with similar agreements concluded with other countries with which the United States has no effective commercial treaties. This arrangement would be much less likely to impede consideration of the treaty by the Senate or to occasion criticism.