711.60p12A/16
The Minister at Riga (Coleman) to the
Secretary of State
Riga, June 11, 1929.
[Received July
1.]
No. 6203
Sir: I have the honor to refer to the
Department’s telegram No. 5 of January 30, 3 pm., 1929, and to the
Legation’s despatch No. 6088, of April 20, 1929,13a concerning the drafts
of the treaties of Arbitration and of Conciliation to be concluded
between Latvia and Estonia, respectively, and the United States, and to
enclose herewith copies of a Note dated May 29, 1929, from the Legation
to the Latvian Foreign Office, and of the latter’s reply, dated June 3,
1929.
I have [etc.]
[Enclosure 1]
The American Minister (Coleman) to the Latvian Minister of Foreign Affairs
(Balodis)
Excellency: I have the honor to refer to
the Memorandum of the Latvian Government, dated August 29 [20?], 1928, as well as to subsequent
correspondence and conversations concerning the draft Treaty of
Arbitration between Latvia and the United States of America.
In order to remove the objections which the Latvian Government has
heretofore raised in this connection, and to facilitate the
signature of the treaty in its proposed form, I now have the honor
to inform Your Excellency that, should the Latvian Government
consider itself to be entitled to declare that it desired to submit
any difference which might arise, as described in Article I of the
Treaty, to some competent tribunal other than the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at the Hague, my Government is prepared to agree to this
condition.
I avail myself [etc.]
[File copy not signed]
[Enclosure 2]
The Latvian Minister for Foreign Affairs
(Balodis) to the American
Minister (Coleman)
Excellency: I have the honour to
acknowledge the receipt of your Note of May 29th, 1929, concerning
the draft Treaty of Arbitration between Latvia and the United States
of America.
In reply, I have the honour to inform Your Excellency that the
Latvian Government considers itself entitled to declare that it
desires to submit any difference which might arise, as described in
[Page 975] Article 1 of the
Treaty, to some competent tribunal other than the Permanent Court of
Arbitration at the Hague.
I avail myself [etc.]
