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The Japanese Embassy to the Department of State40
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The American and Japanese Delegations41 to invite the British Delegation to a joint conference in order to discuss the following points relating to C. Mandates:
- (1)
- Application to such mandated territories of all existing treaties to which the Mandatories are parties; also recognition of the [Page 305] right of foreign nationals and vessels to have free access to all waters of such territories.
- (2)
- Submission to the United States of a duplicate of an annual report to be made by the Mandatories to the Council of the League of Nations.
- Marginal note by the Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs, Department of State: “Handed to Secretary by Mr. Saburi, of Japanese Embassy, December 2, 1921—File. MacM[urray].”↩
- Presumably the delegations to the Conference on the Limitation of Armament, which opened at Washington Nov. 12, 1921.↩