611.6831/60: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Greece (Laughlin)

2. Your confidential despatch No. 197, December 9, 1924, and enclosure No. 3;26 your telegram No. 117, December 19, noon.25

Your action in exchanging notes is approved and the text of the notes confirmed. Department will promptly publish text in Treaty Series.

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As suggested in your telegram of December 19th, Department authorizes you when informing Minister for Foreign Affairs of formal confirmation by this Government of exchange of notes to include paragraph in following sense:

“In instructing me to apprise you of his formal confirmation of this exchange the Secretary of State desires me to express his satisfaction at the conclusion of this arrangement which renders unnecessary at this time the consideration of the suggestion of the Greek Government with respect to a provisional convention, as communicated to my Government in a note of December 9, 1924 by the Hellenic Minister in Washington.”27

Hughes
  1. Printed as enclosure 1, p. 279.
  2. Not printed.
  3. Not printed.