Office of the Historian

711.6812a/10

The Secretary of State to the Greek Minister (Simopoulos)

Washington, June 6, 1930.

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of May 19, 1930 (numbered 898),6 by which you communicated to me the gratifying information that your Government is ready to conclude a treaty of arbitration and a treaty of conciliation with the Government of the United States of America in accordance with the drafts thereof which were transmitted to your Legation in the Department’s note of April 23, 1928.

Understanding that it is your wish that the two treaties be done in both the English and French languages, I am enclosing for your consideration French equivalents of the English drafts of the two treaties.6 These follow, mutatis mutandis, the French text of the treaties of arbitration and conciliation concluded between the United States and [Page 168] Rumania on March 1 [21], 1929.7 If these be satisfactory to you, I shall, upon being so informed, direct the preparation of the two treaties for signature and be happy to fix a time convenient to you for their signatures.

Should you deem it desirable to suggest any changes in the French text of the treaties, the Department will be glad to consider them.

Accept [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
J. P. Cotton
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  3. Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. iii, pp. 751 and 753.↩