711.4121/26

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Great Britain (Davis)

No. 1196

Sir: The receipt is acknowledged of your note No. 4037 dated January 10, 1921, and the enclosure therewith of a note of July 28, 1919, from the Foreign Office by which His Majesty’s Government gave notice in behalf of the Bang of Tonga of the denunciation, except as to Article VI of the Treaty concluded on October 2, 1886, between the King of Tonga and the United States.

You are requested if the Embassy has not made acknowledgment of the note from the Foreign Office to make such acknowledgment in the following form: [Page 137]

“In due course I communicated to my Government the notice given in behalf of the King of Tonga by His Majesty’s Government in your note of July 28, 1919, of the denunciation of the Treaty of Amity, Commerce and Navigation, concluded on October 2, 1886, between the King of Tonga and the United States, that notice being given under Article XIV of the Treaty which provides for its termination one year after such notice, save and except as to Article VI, which is terminable only by mutual consent.

“By direction of my Government I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the notice given by His Majesty’s Government. It is the understanding of my Government that the provisions of Article VI of the Treaty continue in force under the exception which is made concerning them in Article XIV.”

If an acknowledgment of the note of the Foreign Office previously has been made by the Embassy, you are requested to transmit a copy of that acknowledgment to the Department, otherwise you are requested to transmit to the Department a copy of the acknowledgment which the Embassy makes in pursuance of this instruction.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Alvey A. Adee