Office of the Historian

824.733/4: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Bolivia (Trueblood)

Washington, April 23, 1931—11 a.m.

15. Your 33, April 15. Department approves of your protest on ground of international comity in so far as Legation’s telegrams are concerned.

With respect to taxes on consular telegrams mention may be made of Article XXXIII of the Treaty of 1858.1

If exemption is granted to diplomatic or other agents of any country under provisions of a treaty or otherwise you should insist upon like treatment under Article XXX of the same treaty.

Stimson
  1. Malloy, Treaties, 1776–1909, vol. i, pp. 113, 123.↩