711.7512A/2: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Albania (Hart)

10. The Secretary today handed to the Albanian Minister a draft of a proposed treaty of arbitration between the United States and Albania. The provisions of the draft operate to extend the policy of arbitration enunciated in the Arbitration Convention concluded in 1908 between the United States and several other countries. The language of the draft is identical in effect with that of the arbitration treaties recently signed with France and Italy11 and with the draft arbitration treaty already submitted to other governments in the general program for the extension of these principles.

The Secretary also handed to the Minister a proposed draft of a conciliation treaty modeled after so-called Bryan treaties signed by the United States with many countries in 1913 and 1914.

Full texts are being forwarded in next pouch.12

Kellogg
  1. See vol. ii, pp. 816 ff and vol. iii, pp. 102 ff.
  2. Drafts not printed; both treaties were signed without change.