711.682 (1928)/2: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Greece (Skinner)
12. Referring to your despatch No. 405, December 15, 1927.20 The Government of the United States would now be glad to enter into negotiation with Greece of a treaty of friendship, commerce and consular rights.
Before deciding to conclude the modus vivendi which was embodied [Page 19] in the exchange of notes dated December 9, 1924,21 the representative of Greece at Washington had suggested treaty negotiations, which were to be conducted, presumably, here. The Department is, however, of the opinion that the proposed negotiations should take place in Athens. Therefore, it wishes you to ascertain and report by cable if the Greek Government will now enter into these negotiations. Should the Greek Government be willing to begin such negotiations in the near future, instructions and a draft of treaty will be mailed you shortly.
The draft’s principle as to commercial provisions will be that of unconditional most-favored-nation treatment. There will be included also in the draft provisions as to the rights of nationals of each country in the other, the protection of property, and consular rights and immunities. The draft’s principal features will resemble those in the Treaty between the United States and Germany of December 8, 192322 (Treaty Series No. 725).
The United States Government also would be glad to conclude with Greece at this time a naturalization convention similar to that signed November 23, 1923, with Bulgaria23 and other treaties of naturalization. You may, in your discretion, bring this to the Greek Government’s attention when you inquire concerning the negotiation of the treaty.24
- Not printed.↩
- Foreign relations, 1924, vol. ii, pp. 279–281.↩
- Ibid., 1923, vol. ii, p. 29.↩
- Ibid., vol. i, p. 464.↩
- See telegram No. 14, Feb. 23, 1928, 6 p.m., to the Minister of Greece, p. 28.↩