711.60p2/27: Telegram
The Minister in Latvia (Coleman) to the Secretary of State
[Received January 10—12:15 p.m.]
3. Latvian Government is in agreement with proposals of Department in its number 479, December 15th, except article 7; Latvian Government insists upon inclusion of state monopolies among exceptions on the ground that it is in all their treaties and because state monopolies involve sovereign power in their administration. Article 16, at the end of article as submitted by the Department, Latvian Government desires to add the first sentence of article 7 of Barcelona convention, “The measures of a general or particular”. Please reply by telegraph.