Office of the Historian

Executive Agreement Series No. 25

894.8561/14

The American Ambassador in Japan (Forbes) to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs (Shidehara)

Tokyo, March 30, 1931.
No. 59

Excellency: In reply to Your Excellency’s note No. 30, dated March 19, 1931, informing me that the Japanese Government will continue to recognize certificates of load-line issued by the American Bureau of Shipping to American vessels, pending the coming into force of the International Ship Load-line Convention signed at London on July 5, 1930, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the United States is recognizing the load-line marks approved by the Japanese Government.

I avail myself [etc.]

W. Cameron Forbes