711.632/32: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Minister in Austria (Washburn)
Washington, March 17,
1928—5 p.m.
20. Your despatch No. 1575, October 18 last.96 Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Eights. Article seven.
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- Paragraph two. Department desires that you withdraw the words “bases of such duties or charges”. This Government desires to have “restrictions” inserted as suggested in your telegram 56 of September 26 last. Also insert “restrictions” in the same position in the last clause of the paragraph.
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- Paragraph four. You are authorized to agree to the omission of “with respect to commodities, formalities and otherwise” and to the omission of “in view of the normal volume of trade in the particular class of goods between the two countries”.
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- This Government desires to retain the provision “an equitable share in the allocation of the quantity of restricted goods which may be authorized for importation or exportation”. It considers that this provision accords completely with the last paragraph of the protocol concluded at Geneva November 8 last and now signed by twenty-six countries, including the United States and Austria.97
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- Revise paragraph four of this Government’s draft in accordance with the two preceding paragraphs of this telegram and submit it again to the Austrian negotiators.
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- This Government is unwilling to agree to the Austrian proposed substitute for the third sentence of paragraph four because the Austrian proposal does not make provision directly in regard to the allocation of quantities of goods which is more important than the formalities or conditions to which that proposal relates.
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- At the end of the seventh paragraph, strike out “and” before “vessels” and add after “vessels” the words “and goods”.
Kellogg