500.A14/660
The Under Secretary of State ( Phillips ) to the Persian Minister ( Djalal )
My Dear Mr. Minister: I acknowledge the receipt of your note of May 28, 1934,16 with further reference to the objections of your Government to the Arms Traffic Convention of 1925.
In reply, I invite your attention to my note of May 29, 1934, in which I restated in some detail the position of this Government.
The type of reservation which you suggest would not be possible under our constitutional procedure. The action most appropriate in the circumstances would, therefore, appear to be ratification of the Convention by this Government coupled with continued efforts at Geneva to secure its revision.
I am [etc.]
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