651.0031/13
The Acting Secretary of State to the French Chargé ( Chambrun )
My Dear Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: Referring to the Department’s note of March 25, 1919, in regard to the proposal of your Government to terminate the treaty between the United States and France of June 24, 1822, and to your conference with the Solicitor for the Department on April 23, 1919, as to some method whereby the Treaty of 1822 might be terminated upon shorter notice than six months, as required by Article 7, I would suggest for your consideration the conclusion of a brief Treaty modifying Article 7, so that the Treaty of 1822 might be terminated upon three months notice. To this end, I enclose a rough draft of a Treaty making the modification mentioned in Article 7, of the Treaty of 1822.2 As requested by you, I also enclose copies of a Treaty with The Netherlands of May 9, 1914,3 extending the duration of the Arbitration Convention [Page 231] of May 2, 1908; of the Treaty with Italy of February 25, 1913,4 amending Article 3 of the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of February 6 [26], 1871.
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- Draft not printed; its provisions are identical with those of the final text, p. 232.↩
- Foreign Relations, 1915, p. 1099.↩
- Ibid., 1913, p. 611.↩