Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The Far East, Volume IV

711.922/139: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Siam (Neville)

Washington, November 30, 1937—3 p.m.

39. Your despatch No. 28 of November 13³⁰ and your 42 of November 26, 5 p.m., and 43 of November 29, 11 a.m.

(1) The original of treaty signed November 13 has just been received but not yet compared. The Department does not propose to make the text public for the time being and hopes that the Siamese Government will not do so, or transmit copies to other Governments, until it is made public here, or a definite understanding is reached in regard to publicity.

(2) Please send at once, by air mail, originals of note from Minister for Foreign Affairs concerning real property and note concerning intention of Siamese Government in connection with real property rights of foreigners. Also send certified copies of your two notes in reply thereto.

(3) The Department, after careful consideration considers it inadvisable to terminate the protocol regarding evocation until the treaty enters into force. The treaty will shortly be sent to the President for transmission to the Senate. The Department will do all in its power to expedite the entry into force of the new treaty, thereby terminating the protocol concerning evocation.

(5) [sic] For your information, and in your discretion for oral statement to the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The protocol concerning evocation was put into force with the advice and consent of the Senate. To vary its terms or suspend its operation by exchange of notes might raise serious difficulties and possibly jeopardize the ratification of the treaty.

Hull

30. Not printed; it transmitted copy of treaty, protocol, and exchange of notes.