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[Enclosure—Translation]
The Uruguayan Minister for Foreign
Affairs (Dominguez) to the
American Minister (Grant-Smith)
Montevideo, September 7, 1928.
238/928 (1269)Mr. Minister: I have the honor to
acknowledge receipt of Your Excellency’s Note, No. 158, dated
August 27, 1928, in which you inform me that the Governments of
Germany, the United States, Belgium, France, Great Britain,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Irish Free
State, India, Italy, Japan, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, signed
on that day in Paris a treaty by which they condemn recourse to
war for the settlement of international disputes, renouncing it
as an instrument of national policy in their relations between
one another, and recognizing that the solution of all disputes
or litigations of whatever origin that might arise between them
shall be sought only by pacific means.
At the same time Your Excellency refers to the origin of this
Pact, to the procedure followed for its conclusion, to the
broadening of its scope, and expressing, thus, that you submit
the text to the consideration of my Government, with a view to
its adhesion.
In reply, I have the honor to advise Your Excellency of the
satisfaction with which this Government has received that
communication.
The principle sanctioned by the treaty has always guided our
international conduct, and we have never omitted any effort, nor
has any opportunity been neglected, that would afford an
occasion to contribute towards its establishment.
That the relations between states be always maintained within the
limits of law is an ideal deeply rooted in our people, which has
sought to make it an integral part of its own constitution.
The treaty which has just been signed in Paris, condemning as it
does recourse to force and insuring the pacific solution of
disputes between nations, can receive, therefore, only the most
cordial reception, and it is for this reason that this
Government is disposed to favor the adhesion of Uruguay, to
which end it will initiate the appropriate constitutional
steps.
I reiterate [etc.]
