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Papers Relating to the Foreign relations of the United States, 1927, Volume II

Great Britain:


Contents

    • Representations by the British Government regarding letter on war debts from the Secretary of the Treasury to the president of Princeton University (Documents 735–737)
      • Arrangement between the United States and Great Britain for the disposal of certain pecuniary claims arising out of the recent war, signed May 19, 1927 (Documents 738–743)
        • Arrangement between the United States and Great Britain regarding releases of property under American and British trading with the enemy acts (Documents 744–745)
          • Interpretation of convention of December 2, 1899, and Merchant Marine Act of 1920 with respect to British commercial rights in American Samoa (Documents 746–748)
            • Negotiations in regard to the administration of the Turtle Islands and to the boundary between the Philippine Islands and British North Borneo (Documents 749–752)
              • Negotiations for convention between the United States, Great Britain, and Iraq regarding rights of the United States and of its nationals in Iraq (Documents 753–759)
                • Retention by the United States of capitulatory rights in Iraq pending conclusion of a treaty (Documents 760–766)
                  • Continued negotiations to ensure recognition of the principle of the open door in the Turkish Petroleum Company’s concession in Iraq (Documents 767–768)

                  Contents

                  • List of Papers
                  • China:
                    • Continued civil war in China and elimination of Communists from power in the Nationalist regime (Documents 1–15)
                    • Measures taken by the United States for the protection of American lives and property in China (Documents 16–127)
                    • Attacks by Chinese Nationalist troops upon foreign lives and property at Nanking, March 24, 1927, and efforts of the powers to secure amends (Documents 128–213)
                    • Evacuation of American citizens from places of danger in China (Documents 214–369)
                    • Taking over of the Russian defense sector of the Peking Legation quarter by Legation guards of other powers (Documents 370–375)
                    • Protection of Swiss citizens in China (Documents 376–380)
                    • Continuation of the embargo on shipments of arms to China (Documents 381–386)
                    • Refusal by the United States to discontinue wireless station on warship on the Yangtze River at request of Chinese Nationalist authorities (Documents 387–390)
                    • Disinclination of the United States to join in international action to suppress piracies in Chinese waters (Documents 391–398)
                    • Proposals for revision of Chinese treaties regarding tariff control and extraterritoriality (Documents 399–421)
                    • The Special Conference on the Chinese Customs Tariff (Documents 422–423)
                    • Efforts of the United States to meet situation created by imposition in China of taxes in conflict with treaty provisions (Documents 424–504)
                    • Consular clearance of foreign vessels to avoid imposition by Chinese authorities of surtax on tonnage in excess of dues fixed by treaty (Documents 505–539)
                    • Disinclination of the United States to intervene in matters relating to the administration of the Chinese Maritime Customs (Documents 540–550)
                    • Decision of American Government not to exercise right to have an official watch the proceedings in suits by American plaintiffs against Chinese defendants (Documents 551–554)
                    • Embargo by the Chinese Nationalist Government at Nanking on the shipment of silver and gold (Documents 555–558)
                    • Continued negotiations concerning the Federal Telegraph Company’s contract with the Chinese Government (Documents 559–569)
                    • Consideration of informal proposal for loan by American bankers to the South Manchuria Railway (Documents 570–579)
                    • Arrangement for payment by American citizens and firms of voluntary contributions in lieu of taxes to the Harbin municipality (Documents 580–586)
                  • Colombia:
                    • Boundary dispute with Nicaragua
                    • Boundary dispute with Peru
                  • Costa Rica:
                    • Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Costa Rica (Documents 587–590)
                  • Cuba:
                    • Proposal by Cuba that the commercial convention between the United States and Cuba, signed December 11, 1902, be revised (Documents 591–597)
                    • Passage of Cuban constitutional amendment bill (Documents 598–601)
                    • Visit of President Machado to the United States (Documents 602–604)
                    • Consent of the United States Government to conversion of $9,000,000 of the Cuban public debt (Document 605)
                    • Suggestion of Cuba that a meteorological station be erected on Swan Island jointly by the United States, Cuba, Great Britain, and Mexico (Documents 606–607)
                  • Czechoslovakia:
                    • Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Czechoslovakia (Documents 608–615)
                  • Dominican Republic:
                    • Prolongation of the presidential term from four years to six years (Documents 616–623)
                    • Boundary dispute with Haiti
                  • Egypt:
                    • Correspondence relating to equality of representation as between the capitulatory powers on the Egyptian Mixed Courts (Documents 624–633)
                    • Representations concerning alleged discrimination against American companies in the enforcement of regulations on storage of petroleum at the port of Alexandria (Documents 634–643)
                  • Ethiopia:
                    • Reestablishment of American diplomatic representation in Ethiopia (Documents 644–651)
                    • Project for construction of a dam at Lake Tsana (Documents 652–661)
                  • France:
                    • Briand proposal for pact of perpetual peace between the United States and France; counterproposal for multilateral treaty renouncing war (Documents 662–689)
                    • French tariff decree of August 30, 1927, and proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and France (Documents 690–720)
                    • Arrangement between the United States and France granting relief from double income tax on shipping profits (Documents 721–724)
                    • Representations to the French Government regarding claims of American citizens for property sequestered during the World War (Document 725)
                    • Agreement between the United States and France for the acquisition of sites for monuments which the American Battle Monuments Commission is to erect in France (Document 726)
                  • Germany:
                    • Agreement by the Allied and Associated Powers regulating amounts to be allocated for certain purposes from the Dawes annuities, signed January 13, 1927 (Documents 727–731)
                    • Policy of the Department of State regarding American bankers’ loans to German states and municipalities (Documents 732–734)
                  • Great Britain:
                    • Representations by the British Government regarding letter on war debts from the Secretary of the Treasury to the president of Princeton University (Documents 735–737)
                    • Arrangement between the United States and Great Britain for the disposal of certain pecuniary claims arising out of the recent war, signed May 19, 1927 (Documents 738–743)
                    • Arrangement between the United States and Great Britain regarding releases of property under American and British trading with the enemy acts (Documents 744–745)
                    • Interpretation of convention of December 2, 1899, and Merchant Marine Act of 1920 with respect to British commercial rights in American Samoa (Documents 746–748)
                    • Negotiations in regard to the administration of the Turtle Islands and to the boundary between the Philippine Islands and British North Borneo (Documents 749–752)
                    • Negotiations for convention between the United States, Great Britain, and Iraq regarding rights of the United States and of its nationals in Iraq (Documents 753–759)
                    • Retention by the United States of capitulatory rights in Iraq pending conclusion of a treaty (Documents 760–766)
                    • Continued negotiations to ensure recognition of the principle of the open door in the Turkish Petroleum Company’s concession in Iraq (Documents 767–768)
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