Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1928, Volume I

711.5312Anti-War/9

The Chargé in Portugal ( Andrews ) to the Secretary of State

Lisbon , September 5, 1928 .
[Received September 18.]

No. 2377

Sir: With reference to the Legation’s telegram No. 34 of September 1 and preceding despatch No. 2375 of August 29,⁵² in respect of the Note delivered to the Portuguese Government on the Treaty for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy, I have the honor to enclose herewith the original and a translation of a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated August 31, received September 1, 1928, giving the definite adherence of the Portuguese Government to the Treaty. I am sending the original in view of the exceptional importance of the Note, a copy being retained in the Legation files.

I have the honor to report that the government has made no public pronouncements on the Treaty and that no editorial comments have appeared in the leading newspapers here subsequent to the publication of the Note, the press having confined itself to quotations from the Parisian papers.

I have [etc.]

Wm. Whiting Andrews

[Enclosure—Translation]

The Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs ( Rodrigues ) to the American Chargé ( Andrews )

Lisbon , August 31, 1928 .

Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: Having acquainted His Excellency the President of the Portuguese Republic with the text of the Treaty for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy, which you did me the honor to deliver, for which I have already thanked you by my note of the 28th instant,⁵³ I have now the greatest satisfaction in being able to inform you that the Portuguese Government, in full accord with the spirit and wording of that Treaty, gives to it its entire adhesion.

I avail myself [etc.]

Dr. Bettencourt Rodrigues

52. Neither printed.
53. Department of State Publication No. 468, Treaty for the Renunciation of War, p. 251.