[Enclosure—Translation]
The Turkish Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Rouschdy) to the
American Ambassador (Grew)
Angora, September 6,
1928.
No. 47668–26
Mr. Ambassador: I have had the honor to
receive the two Notes dated August 27, 1928 and numbered 51 and
52, which you were so good as to address to me in order to
advise me of the signature at Paris of the Multilateral Treaty
for the Renunciation of War as an instrument of national policy
among the Governments of Australia, Belgium, Canada,
Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Great Britain, India, the Irish
Free State, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Poland, South Africa and
the United States of America.
Your Excellency who transmits to me in your Notes the text of the
aforesaid Multilateral Treaty as well as the complete dossier of
the correspondence on this subject, exchanged among the
participant States, is desirous of submitting the Treaty to the
approval of the Government of the Republic for the purpose of
its adhesion should it so desire.
My Government has devoted very special attention to the study
both of the signed text of the Multilateral Treaty and of the
pertinent dossier. Moreover, since the time of the proposal of
the plan by the distinguished Secretary of State of the United
States of America, Turkey, to whose eminently pacific policy
this proposition was wholly
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in conformity, followed with great
sympathy the development of the negotiations which it was
sincerely desirous of seeing successfully concluded.
In consequence, considering that the neutrality treaties between
Turkey and other States harmonize in spirit and in letter with
the aim and object of the treaty which you submit for our
approval, and, on the other hand, being in perfect accord with
the explanations supplied by the American Note of June 23, 1928,
with reference to the correspondence exchanged between the
Government of the United States and those of the other States,
Turkey agrees to sign without reservation the Multilateral Pact
for the Renunciation of War of August 27, 1928, which harmonizes
with its pacific viewpoint, and it declares that it considers
itself reciprocally bound by the text of the proposed Act apart
from all documents which have not been submitted as an integral
part of the Pact to the collective signature of the
participating States.
Accordingly, I hasten to apprise your Excellency that powers
necessary for the signature have been conferred on our
Ambassador at Washington.
Accept [etc.]
