Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States, 1929, Volume III

711.7112A/2: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Chargé in Rumania ( Patterson )

Washington , April 21, 1928—6 p.m.

17. The Secretary today handed to the Rumanian Minister a draft of a proposed treaty of arbitration between the United States and Rumania.¹ The provisions of the draft operate to extend the policy of arbitration enumerated in the Arbitration Convention concluded in 1908 between the United States and several other countries.^1a The language of the draft is identical in effect with that of the arbitration treaty recently signed with France² and with the draft arbitration treaty already submitted to other governments in the general program for the extension of these principles.

The Secretary also handed to the Minister a proposed draft of a conciliation treaty modeled after so-called Bryan treaties signed by the United States with many countries in 1913 and 1914.³

Full texts are being forwarded in next pouch.

Kellogg

1. Draft not printed.
2. For index references to treaties of 1908, see Foreign Relations, 1908, p. 832; ibid., 1909, p. 676.
2. Ibid., 1928, vol ii, p. 810.
3. For index references to the Bryan treaties, see ibid., 1914, p. 1130; ibid., 1915, p. 1328; ibid., 1916, p. 1007.