411.12/1819
The American Ambassador in Mexico (Daniels) to the Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs (Puig)4
The Ambassador of the United States of America presents his compliments and has the honor to inform His Excellency, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, that in proceeding to the signature of the Convention for the en bloc settlement of the Special Claims of the United States, and in order to aid in the interpretation of Articles IV and VI, the following points discussed orally during the negotiations are accepted by both governments.
Under Article IV: If a particular claim is improperly classified by the Joint Committee as a General Claim, the General Claims Commissioners or Umpire may in their judgment determine it to be a Special Claim rather than a General Claim without adjudicating it upon the merits, in which event the total amount claimed in that particular case shall be added to the total of all Special Claims for the purpose of computing the total Special Claims liability of the Mexican Government.
Under Article VI: That the reservation of the Mexican Government not to deliver documents which, owing to their nature, cannot be furnished by said Government, shall be used only in exceptional cases, where the withholding thereof may be required by considerations of real political importance to the Government of Mexico.
- Transmitted to the Department by the Chargé in Mexico as an enclosure to his despatch No. 1385, May 4, 1934; received May 9. A note of the same date, mutatis mutandis, in Spanish, from the Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs was received by the American Ambassador in Mexico.↩