550.S1 Washington/155: Telegram
The Chargé in France (Marriner) to the Secretary of State
[Received April 22—2:30 p.m.]
182. From Norman Davis. As you are aware the Convention on the Abolition of Import and Export Prohibitions and Restrictions which was opened for signature at Geneva on November 8, 192772 was ratified conditionally by us and many other powers but finally failed to go into effect because of Poland’s rejection. In view of wide acceptance of this convention I suggest for your consideration that the principles it set forth might serve as a useful point of departure in dealing with prohibitions and quotas. Without something of this kind tariff reductions would be vitiated. [Davis.]
- For correspondence relating to negotiation of this convention (signed on the part of the United States, January 30, 1928), see Foreign Relations, 1927, vol. i, pp. 246 ff; for text, see ibid., 1928, vol. i, p. 336. For correspondence pertaining to withdrawal of the United States from the convention, effective June 30, 1933, see post, pp. 783 ff.↩