[Enclosure—Translation]
The Mexican Minister for Foreign Affairs
(Bay)
to the American Chargé (Boal)
Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: I have the honor to
refer to your courteous note number 1662 of today’s date, in which,
after setting forth, on behalf of your Government, the reasons of
the latter for not accepting the proposal which the Government of
Mexico made to your Government in note dated the 11th of the current
month, you suggest a procedure for accomplishing the purpose
regarding which the two Governments are in absolute accord. In
reply, I beg leave to advise you, in order that you may so inform
the Government of the United States, that my Government considers
that the claims filed with the General Claims Commission which the
Agencies of both countries before that Tribunal may not memorialize
by the 30th of June, 1936, should be considered extinguished by a
waiver of rights (extinguidas por
desistimiendo) on the part of the Governments of the United
States and of Mexico, respectively, in virtue of the agreement which
paragraph (h), Clause Sixth of the Protocol
of April 24, 1934, implies; however, being desirous of finding a
practical procedure which, without signifying any modification in
the thesis maintained in its note of the 11th of the present month
in respect to the unmemorialized claims in question, will permit the
Government of the United States to overcome the difficulties which
it appears to have encountered in the way of accepting the proposal
contained in the communication of this Ministry dated the 11th of
the present month, my Government has no objection to the adoption by
the two Governments, through their respective
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Agencies, of the course of action
outlined in the points proposed in your note number 1662, to which I
have the honor of replying.
Consequently, and in view of the last part of your above mentioned
note, I beg leave to inform you that the Agent of Mexico before the
General Claims Commission will be instructed accordingly.
Accept [etc.]
