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The Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs (Sham) to the Counselor of the Persian Legation (Noury)
My Dear Mr. Noury: Referring to your recent inquiry at the Department as to the status of the Treaty Looking to the Advancement of the Cause of General Peace signed at Teheran on February 4, 1914,68 I beg to inform you that the Department’s records reveal the following facts:
The ratification of the above Treaty was revised by the Senate of the United States on August 13, 1914, with the following amendments:
“Strike out Article IV. Change the title of the next Article so as to make it read Article IV instead of Article V.”
On February 21, 1922 the Mejliss approved the Treaty with the above amendments made by the Senate and on June 17, 1922 it was ratified by the President of the United States.
The President’s action in ratifying the Treaty was taken subsequent to the receipt of a communication dated June 9, 1922 addressed to the Department by Mr. Hussein Alai,68 then Persian Minister in Washington, and reading in part as follows:
“I … have just been informed that the Treaty approved by the Mejliss has been sent to Paris for His Imperial Majesty the Shah’s [Page 748] ratification. It will be forwarded on from there to this Legation, so that the exchange may be effected in Washington.”
Following the President’s ratification, the Department under date of June 26, 1922,69 replied to the Persian Minister’s note of June 9, stating that the Secretary of State was prepared to exchange ratifications at the Minister’s convenience.
No further communication on this subject appears to have been received from Mr. Alai, and the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty under reference was consequently never effected.
Sincerely yours,