Office of the Historian

711.60 f 12A/2: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Czechoslovakia (Einstein)

Washington, March 27, 1928—6 p.m.

12. The Department handed the Minister of Czechoslovakia on March 27, a draft of a proposed treaty of arbitration between the United States and Czechoslovakia. The provisions of the draft operate to extend the policy of arbitration enunciated in the Arbitration Conventions concluded in 1908 between the United States and several other countries.23 The language of the draft is identical in effect with that of the arbitration treaty recently signed with France24 and with the draft arbitration treaties already submitted to other governments in the general program for the extension of these principles.

The Department also handed to the Minister draft of treaty of similar purport to the so-called Bryan treaties.25

The text of these proposed treaties will be forwarded in the next pouch.26

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  1. For index reference to the treaties of 1908, see Foreign Relations, 1908, p. 832; 1909, p. 676.↩
  2. Post, p. 810.↩
  3. For index references to the Bryan treaties, see Foreign Relations, 1914, p. 1130; 1915, p. 1328; 1916, p. 1007.↩
  4. Draft treaties not printed; they were the same as the signed treaties, pp. 688 and 690.↩