Contents

• List of Papers
• Colombia:
  • Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Colombia
  • Statement by the Colombian Government that it could not become a party to an arbitration of the Colon fire claims
  • Boundary dispute with Peru. (See Volume I, General.)
• Costa Rica:
  • Boundary dispute with Panama. (See Volume I, General.)
• Cuba:
  • Proposal by Cuba that the commercial convention between the United States and Cuba, signed December 11, 1902, be revised
  • Convention between the United States and Cuba for the prevention of smuggling of intoxicating liquors, signed March 4, 1926
  • Convention between the United States and Cuba for the suppression of smuggling, signed March 11, 1926
  • Consular convention between the United States and Cuba, signed April 22, 1926
  • Additional extradition treaty between the United States and Cuba, signed January 14, 1926.
  • Disinclination of the United States to conclude a trade marks convention with Cuba as proposed by the Cuban Government
• Dominican Republic:
  • Consent by the United States to the emission of bond issue of $10,000,000 by the Dominican Government
  • Boundary dispute with Haiti. (See Volume I, General.)
• Ecuador:
  • Good offices of the American Minister on behalf of Chinese in Ecuador.
• Egypt:
  • Efforts by the United States to protect the interests of American archeologists in Egypt.
  • Representations by Great Britain against the exercise by American consular courts in Egypt of jurisdiction over seamen of British nationality on American vessels
• Estonia:
  • Agreement between the United States and Estonia regarding mutual recognition of ship measurement certificates
• France:
  • Efforts to obtain ratification of debt agreement between the United States and France, signed April 29, 1926
  • Failure of effort of the American Government to secure agreement with the French Government on a naturalization treaty
  • Failure of the United States to secure a convention with France relating to letters rogatory
  • Efforts to reach an understanding with France for reciprocal recognition of American and French legislation regarding inspection of vessels
  • Exemption of American business firms in Madagascar from payment of special taxes
  • Precautions by the United States for the safety of Americans during the Syrian insurrection
• 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
  • Rejection by arbitrators of claim of the Standard Oil Company to the D. A. P. G. tankers
  • Policy of the Department of State regarding American bankers’ loans to German states and municipalities
  • Objection by the Department of State to proposed loan by Lee, Higginson & Company to the German Potash Syndicate
• Great Britain:
  • Claims of American citizens against Great Britain arising out of the war, 1914–1918
  • Claim of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey against the British Government for the destruction of property in Rumania in 1916
  • Cooperation of the British Government with the American Government to prevent liquor smuggling into the United States
  • Efforts by the United States to obtain for American rubber manufacturers relief from British restrictions on the export of raw rubber
  • Continued negotiations to ensure recognition of the principle of the Open Door in the Turkish Petroleum Company’s concession in Iraq
• Greece:
  • Refusal of the United States to join in representations to Greece regarding alleged violations of the loan agreement of February 10, 1918
  • Representations by the United States against the nonexemption of American consular officers in Greece from the provisions of the forced loan of 1926
• Guatemala:
  • Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Guatemala
• Haiti:
  • Temporary withdrawal of United States war vessels from Haitian waters because of presidential election
  • Visit of President Borno of Haiti to the United States
  • Agreement between the United States and Haiti according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed July 8, 1926
  • Commercial convention between France and Haiti, signed July 29, 1926
  • Promise by the United States not to raise certain objections to the claims agreement between France and Haiti, signed June 12, 1925
  • Support by the United States of Haitian refusal to arbitrate with France the question of paying interest in gold on gold loan of 1910
  • Boundary dispute with the Dominican Republic. (See Volume I, General.)
• Honduras:
  • Amends by the Government of Honduras for violation of the American consular premises at Ceiba
• Italy:
  • Arrangement between the United States and Italy granting relief from double income tax on shipping profits
  • Right of American citizens when arrested to communicate with American consular officers
  • Permission for flight over territory of the United States by an Italian naval hydroplane
• Japan:
  • Arrangement between the United States and Japan granting relief from double income tax on shipping profits
  • Proposal by Japan that a conference be called to revise the fur seals convention, signed July 7, 1911
  • Suits in Japanese courts against United States Shipping Board
• Latvia:
  • Provisional commercial agreement between the United States and Latvia according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed February 1, 1926
• Liberia:
  • Negotiations concerning the Firestone rubber concessions and the Finance Corporation of America loan
  • Arbitration convention between the United States and Liberia, signed February 10, 1926
  • Steps taken toward completing the delimitation of the Franco-Liberian Boundary
• Mexico:
  • Representations by the United States against Mexican agrarian and petroleum legislation
  • Representations by the United States against the orders of June 8 and August 24, 1926, relative to provisional permits to drill oil wells
  • 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
  • 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
  • Good offices of the Department of State in behalf of American citizens adversely affected by Mexican religious legislation
  • Renewed negotiations for a settlement of the dispute over the Rio Grande boundary
• Morocco:
  • Attitude of the United States toward proposed changes in the status of Tangier
  • Reservation of American rights with respect to proposed changes in the administration of Cape Spartel Light
  • Discontinuance of the extraordinary French and Spanish joint naval vigilance off the coast of Morocco
• Netherlands:
  • Arrangement between the United States and the Netherlands granting relief from double income tax on shipping profits
  • Proposal to allocate to the Netherlands Government the former German Yap-Menado cable
• Nicaragua:
  • Efforts by the United States to preserve constitutional government in Nicaragua
• Norway:
  • Statement by Norway of its paramount interest in the Island of Jan Mayen in the Arctic Ocean
• Panama:
  • Unperfected treaty between the United States and Panama for settlement of points of difference, signed July 28, 1926
  • Proposals by Panama to modify the unperfected treaty between the United States and Panama, signed July 28, 1926
  • Claims convention between the United States and Panama, signed July 28, 1926
  • Boundary dispute with Costa Rica. (See Volume I, General.)
• Paraguay:
  • Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Paraguay
  • Boundary dispute with Bolivia. (See Volume I, General.)
• Persia:
  • Decision that when change of regime necessitates new credentials, precedence of diplomats of same rank is determined by date of original reception
• Peru:
  • Boundary dispute with Colombia. (See Volume I, General.)
  • Tacna-Arica question. (See Volume I, General.)
• Portugal:
  • Efforts by the United States in behalf of American holders of Portuguese tobacco monopoly bonds
• Rumania:
  • Agreement between the United States and Rumania according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed February 26, 1926
  • Representations by the United States against Rumanian legislation regarding subsoil rights in lands held in perpetual lease
• Russia:
  • Disapproval of flotation in the United States of German loans to be used to advance credits to the Soviet regime
  • Refusal of visa for appointed Soviet Minister to Mexico to enter the United States en route to her post
• Salvador:
  • Treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Salvador, signed February 22, 1926
• Spain:
  • Convention between the United States and Spain for the prevention of smuggling of intoxicating liquors, signed February 10, 1926
• Switzerland:
  • Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Switzerland
  • Termination of representation of Swiss interests in Egypt by American diplomatic and consular officers
• 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
  • Agreements between the United States and Turkey according mutual unconditional most-favored-nation treatment in customs matters, signed February 18 and July 20, 1926
  • Participation of the High Commissioner in Turkey in collective note requesting exemption of diplomatic and consular officers from consumption and other special taxes
• Index