811.5241/187
The Ambassador in Great Britain (Bingham) to the Acting Secretary of State
No. 88
London, July 6,
1933.
[Received July 19.]
Sir: I have the honor to inform the
Department that in compliance with the instructions contained in the
Department’s telegram No. 123 of May 24, 5 p.m., I addressed a note
to the Foreign Office on May 25 transmitting the suggested revisions
in the draft convention to extend
application of the Convention between the United States and the
United Kingdom, signed at Washington on March 2, 1899, relative to
disposal of real and personal
property in the respective countries, to British colonies,
protectorates, mandated territories and to territories under the
authority of the United States.
I now have the honor to enclose a copy of Foreign Office Note No.
4877/1175/45, of July 5, 1933. It will be observed that in paragraph
2 of the note the Foreign Office expresses the view that paragraph 1
of the new Article IV of the Draft Convention (see Embassy’s
despatch No. 828 of April 25, 1933) “provides for the application of
the Convention to any mandated territory in respect of which the
mandate is exercised by His Majesty’s Government in the United
Kingdom.” The second suggestion contained in the Department’s
telegram abovementioned has, however, been accepted.
The Foreign Office having expressed its willingness to have the
British
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Ambassador at
Washington proceed with the signature of the Convention in
Washington, I should be grateful if the Department would inform me
whether the text as it now stands of the supplementary convention is
acceptable.
Respectfully yours,
For the Ambassador:
Ray Atherton
[Enclosure]
The British Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs (Simon) to the
American Ambassador (Bingham)
No. A 4877/1175/45
London, 5 July,
1933.
Your Excellency: I have the honor to
invite reference to the note No. 8 which Your Excellency was so
good as to address to me on the 25th May last, regarding a
proposed supplementary convention to regulate the application of
the Convention between the United States and the United Kingdom
signed at Washington on the 2nd March, 1899, relative to the
disposal of real and personal property in the respective
countries, to British colonies, protectorates and mandated
territories and to insular possessions of the United States.
- 2.
- With reference to suggestion No. 1 in your note, I desire
to invite your attention to paragraph 1 of the proposed new
article 4 on page 2 of the draft supplementary convention
transmitted in my note No. A. 1175/1175/45 of the 24th April
last. This paragraph in fact provides for the application of
the convention to any mandated territory in respect of which
the mandate is exercised by His Majesty’s Government in the
United Kingdom. Moreover the phrase “persons under His
Majesty’s protection” in paragraph 4 of article 4 of the
draft supplementary convention includes persons belonging to
the mandated territories to which the convention
applies.
- 3.
- I agree that the preamble should be amended in the sense
of point No. 2 of your note under reply by the insertion
between “of amending Article 4” and “of the Convention” of
the words “and the second paragraph of Article 6”.
- 4.
- If you are able to inform me in due course that, subject
to the above observations, the text of the supplementary
convention is acceptable to the United States Government, I
am prepared to authorize His Majesty’s Ambassador at
Washington to sign it on behalf of His Majesty’s Government
in the United Kingdom.
I have [etc.]
(For the Secretary of State)
R. L. Craigie
