560.M2/354
The British Ambassador (Lindsay) to the Acting Secretary of State
Sir: I have the honour, under instructions from His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to inform you that His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom have had under consideration the question of their continued adherence to the Convention for the Abolition of Import and Export Prohibitions and Restrictions which was signed at Geneva on the 8th November, 1927, with special regard to the impending consideration of the whole question of import restrictions quotas and similar measures by the Monetary and Economic Conference.2
2. His Majesty’s Government have deemed it advisable to avail themselves of their right under Article 6 of the Protocol signed at Paris on the 21st [20th] December, 1929,3 to be relieved of the obligations accepted by them in accordance with the Convention as from the 30th June, in order that they may be free to enter into any agreements bearing upon the question of prohibitions, quotas and similar restrictions which may ensue from the Monetary and Economic Conference. A formal declaration of withdrawal, as provided for in Article 6 of the above-mentioned Protocol, has accordingly been forwarded to the Secretary General of the League of Nations.4
I have [etc.]
- For correspondence relating to the Monetary and Economic Conference held in London, June 12–July 27, see pp. 452 ff.↩
- For text, see Foreign Relations, 1929, vol. i, p. 424.↩
- Sir James Eric Drummond.↩