711.6521/231: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Italy ( Phillips )
123. Your 319, July 7, 8 p.m. Provisions similar to Articles 3 and 4 of our draft, except that they do not include provisions relating to officers, such as Public Health officers, appear in Articles 19 and 27 of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights with Germany, 1923; Articles 18 and 27 of the corresponding Treaty with Estonia, 1925; Articles 16 and 22 with Hungary, 1925; Articles 18 and 26 with Honduras, 1927; Articles 19 and 27 with Latvia, 1928; Articles 16 and 25 with El Salvador, 1926; Articles 15 and 21 with Austria, 1928; Articles 18 and 26 with Norway, 1928; Articles 17 and 18 with Poland, 1931; Articles 21 and 27 with Finland, 1934.62
It will thus be seen that provisions similar to Articles 3 and 4 appear in all treaties of the United States relating to the consular establishment concluded since 1923.
The Department would be disposed to accept the limitation of the exemption from taxation to direct taxes, if the Italian Government insists upon it, but with respect to its proposal as to free entry for consular officers it must insist upon some material broadening of the rights now granted to American consular officers in Italy, in the direction of the proposals made in its draft.
- For texts of treaties listed above, see appropriate country sections of the annual volumes of Foreign Relations.↩