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The Secretary of State to the Chargé in France (Armour)

No. 2908

Sir: With reference to the Department’s No. 272 of August 16, midnight, please send to the Minister of Afghanistan at Paris a note as follows:

“I am instructed by my Government to send to you, for transmission to your Government, two authenticated copies of the Multilateral Treaty for the Renunciation of War, signed at Paris on August 27, last, one copy being for the archives of your Government and the other for its use should it so desire, in its formal adherence.

“I am also instructed by my Government to furnish, for the information of your Government, a copy of a circular instruction to the diplomatic agents of the United States accredited to Governments other than the original signatories of the Treaty, dated September 17, 1928.”

I am [etc.]

Frank B. Kellogg