711.1212Anti-War/6: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Mexico (Morrow)
263. Your 256 September 14, 3 p.m.82 Please hand the following note to the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs:
“I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I did not fail to communicate to my Government the substance of your note of September 14, 1928,83 in which you informed me that the Mexican Government awaited the announcement of the coming into effect of the general treaty for the Renunciation of War in order to take the necessary steps formally to establish its adherence. I am now instructed by my Government to express its high appreciation of the gracious sentiments of Your Excellency in regard to the Treaty.
“Adherence to this treaty may properly be completed by the deposit with the Government of the United States of an instrument of adherence in accordance with the constitutional requirement of the adhering state in becoming party to treaties. This procedure may be followed as soon as the Government of Mexico desires. There is no need to await ratification by the Powers which signed the Treaty on August 27. Adherences completed prior to the instant when the treaty becomes effective will automatically make adhering powers parties to the treaty at that instant.
[“]My Government has instructed me to express its cordial hope that the Government of Mexico will be among the first of the countries which complete the process of adherence, thus contributing to the prompt and universal acceptance of a treaty which signalizes the deep and abiding friendship between our two countries.”