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

Costa Rica:


Contents

    • Proposed treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights between the United States and Costa Rica (Documents 587–590)

    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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