Senate Resolution 327 As Submitted by Senator Joseph T. Robinson, January 18, 192748
Resolved by the Senate of the United States, That while, by virtue of sovereignty, the duty devolves upon this Government to protect the lives and property of its nationals in foreign countries, which duty is not to be neglected or disregarded, it is nevertheless sound policy, consistent with the honor and best interest of the United States and promotive of international peace and good will to submit to arbitration, [Page 226] or to some impartial tribunal empowered to apply the principles of international law, the diplomatic controversies with Mexico relating to the alleged retroactive and confiscatory provisions of the petroleum and alien-land ownership statutes asserted by Mexico to have been enacted under the 1917 constitution of the Mexican Republic.
That in good will and friendliness efforts should be made and persisted in to effect arrangements whereby all controversies which have arisen or which may hereafter arise with Mexico relating to the property or property rights of nationals of the United States in Mexico which may not be adjusted by diplomatic negotiations, shall be arbitrated or litigated under conditions which will commit the two Governments to the policy of abiding and executing any awards that may be made or judgments that may be rendered in consequence of such arrangements to arbitrate or litigate.
- Reprinted from Congressional Record, vol. 68, pt. 2, p. 1843.↩