711.6712A/28: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Turkey (Grew)
68. Your confidential despatch No. 369, July 3.19 In conversation with Turkish Ambassador today I told him that we could not accept [Page 949] modification of arbitration and conciliation treaty texts proposed by Turkey nor an exchange of notes interpreting text and forming part of treaties. I added, however, that if the Ambassador in the course of ordinary official correspondence should address a note to the Department asking whether the term “domestic jurisdiction” of Article 2 of arbitration treaty included (1) questions involving sovereignty and (2) questions which International Law leaves to the exclusive jurisdiction of States, I would reply in writing in the affirmative. This correspondence would not of course form part of the Treaty. The Ambassador is communicating with his Government by telegraph.
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