Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The British Commonwealth, Europe, Near East and Africa, Volume II

Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1937, The British Commonwealth, Europe, Near East and Africa, Volume II

Editors:

Matilda F. Axton
Rogers P. Churchill
N. O. Sappington
John G. Reid
Francis C. Prescott
Louis E. Gates
Shirley L. Phillips

General Editor:

G. Bernard Noble
E. R. Perkins
Gustave A. Nuermberger

United States Government Printing Office

Washington

1954

The British Commonwealth of Nations: (Documents 1–158)
- United Kingdom: (Documents 1–98)
  - Preliminary discussions respecting a trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom (Documents 1–71)
  - Informal discussions regarding proposed restriction of trade between Australia and New Zealand to British shipping (Documents 72–77)
  - Protest by the British Government against the seizure of the motor vessel Miserinko by the United States Coast Guard authorities (Documents 78–84)
  - Conflicting American and British claims to various islands in the Pacific Ocean (Documents 85–98)
- Australia: (Documents 99–118)
  - Unsatisfactory trade relations between the United States and Australia; announcement by Australian Government of intention to abolish import restrictions (Documents 99–118)
- Canada: (Documents 119–147)
- Irish Free State:
  - Arrangement between the United States and the Irish Free State for air navigation, effected by exchange of notes, signed September 29, 1937, and November 4, 1937
- Newfoundland: (Documents 148–149)
  - Desire of the Government of Newfoundland for an arrangement according reductions in rates of taxation similar to the convention between the United States and Canada, December 30, 1936 (Documents 148–149)
- New Zealand: (Documents 150–158)
  - Informal discussions regarding the possibility of improving trade relations between the United States and New Zealand (Document 150)
  - Efforts to secure from the British Government a solution for the problem of discrimination against American commerce in the New Zealand mandate of Western Samoa (Documents 151–158)
Europe: (Documents 159–456)
- Belgium: (Documents 159–166)
  - Preliminary discussions respecting a supplementary trade agreement between the United States and Belgium (Documents 159–165)
  - Exchange of views between the United States and Belgium respecting the interpretation of the naturalization convention of November 16, 1868 (Document 166)
- Czechoslovakia: (Documents 167–189)
  - Negotiations respecting a trade agreement between the United States and Czechoslovakia (Documents 167–183)
  - Discontinuance by Czechoslovak Government of payment of bounties on certain exports to the United States following representations by the American Government (Documents 184–189)
- Estonia: (Documents 190–203)
  - Desire of the Estonian Government for modification of the commercial treaty of 1925; preliminary discussions regarding a trade agreement (Documents 190–203)
- France: (Documents 204–236)
  - Representations respecting French import control measures in alleged violation of trade agreement (Documents 204–212)
  - Discussions between the United States and France concerning an addendum to the double taxation convention of April 27, 1932 (Documents 213–215)
  - Negotiations with France for the suppression of liquor smuggling into the United States from St. Pierre-Miquelon (Documents 216–233)
  - Status under French law of American citizens of French origin with respect to liability to military service in France (Documents 234–236)
- Germany: (Documents 237–307)
  - Persecution of Jews in Germany (Documents 237–246)
  - Unsatisfactory trade relations between the United States and Germany (Documents 247–256)
  - Negotiations for a settlement of the Drier claim and the sabotage claims of the United States against Germany (Documents 257–270)
  - Informal representations by the German Government regarding derogatory remarks about Chancellor Hitler by Mayor La Guardia of New York (Documents 271–280)
  - Informal representations by Germany with respect to certain utterances of Ambassador Dodd; change of American Ambassadors to Germany (Documents 281–288)
  - Discussions with the German Government regarding right of consular officers to correspond directly with authorities on certain protection matters (Documents 289–291)
  - Informal representations regarding warning by the German Government to American motion picture players against acting in pictures declared inimical to German interests (Documents 292–293)
  - Representations in behalf of Helmut Hirsch, an American citizen sentenced to death in Germany (Documents 294–307)
- Greece: (Documents 308–323)
  - Preliminary negotiations between the United States and Greece for a provisional commercial agreement (Documents 308–315)
  - Conclusion of a protocol between the United States and Greece interpreting article I of the extradition treaty of May 6, 1931; and withdrawal by the United States of notice of abrogation of the treaty given November 5, 1933 (Documents 316–323)
- Italy: (Documents 324–384)
  - Negotiations respecting a new treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between the United States and Italy; temporary commercial arrangement signed December 16, 1937 (Documents 324–375)
  - Proposals for a convention to supersede the existing consular conventions between the United States and Italy (Documents 376–384)
- Lithuania: (Documents 385–394)
  - Representations regarding alleged discrimination against American trade in Lithuania (Documents 385–390)
  - Treaty of naturalization, dual nationality, and military service between the United States and Lithuania, signed October 18, 1937 (Documents 391–394)
- Norway: (Documents 395–401)
  - Preliminary discussions respecting a trade agreement between the United States and Norway (Documents 395–401)
- Poland: (Documents 402–435)
  - Preliminary discussions respecting a trade agreement between the United States and Poland (Documents 402–407)
  - Discrimination against American bondholders in connection with partial defaults and suspensions of payments on various Polish obligations (Documents 408–416)
  - Informal representations regarding Polish direct shipment requirement in apparent violation of treaty of June 15, 1931 (Documents 417–425)
  - Anti-Semitism in Poland and consideration of Jewish emigration as a possible solution (Documents 426–435)
- Spain:
  - The Spanish Civil War
- Switzerland: (Documents 436–449)
  - Informal representations respecting Swiss measures for the control of imports in alleged violation of the reciprocal trade agreement (Documents 436–446)
  - Convention between the United States and Switzerland relative to military obligations of certain persons having dual nationality, signed at Bern, November 11, 1937 (Documents 447–449)
- Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Yugoslavia: (Documents 450–456)
  - Liability of American citizens having dual nationality for military service when visiting Yugoslavia (Documents 450–451)
  - Proposals for the regulation of commercial relations between the United States and Yugoslavia (Documents 452–456)
The Near East and Africa: (Documents 457–752)
- Afghanistan: (Documents 457–468)
  - Granting by Afghanistan of an oil concession to the Inland Exploration Company (Documents 457–461)
  - Consideration by the Department of State of proposals to establish diplomatic representation in Afghanistan (Documents 462–468)
- Egypt: (Documents 469–505)
  - Conference at Montreux for the Abolition of the Capitulations in Egypt, April 12–May 8, 1937 (Documents 469–497)
  - Consideration of advisability of proposing the negotiation of a consular convention between the United States and Egypt (Documents 498–501)
  - Renewed proposals by the United States regarding the negotiation of an extradition treaty with Egypt (Documents 502–505)
- Ethiopia: (Documents 506–561)
  - Withdrawal of American diplomatic and consular representatives from Ethiopia (Documents 506–538)
  - Repressive measures by the Italian authorities against foreign missionary activities in Ethiopia (Documents 539–561)
- Iran: (Documents 562–595)
  - Reluctance of the United States to appoint a Minister to Iran; continued absence of Iranian representation in the United States (Documents 562–572)
  - Resumption by Iran of delivery of second class mail from the United States after further inquiries by the United States (Documents 573–577)
  - Grant of an oil concession by the Iranian Government to the Amiranian Oil Company (Documents 578–593)
  - Representations by the United States regarding discrimination against American trade resulting from the German-Iranian convention for the regulation of payments of October 30, 1935 (Documents 594–595)
- Iraq: (Documents 596–601)
  - Negotiations between the United States and Iraq regarding proposed treaty of commerce and navigation (Documents 596–601)
- Liberia: (Documents 602–649)
  - Proposed new treaty of friendship, commerce and navigation between the United States and Liberia (Documents 602–608)
  - Proposed consular convention between the United States and Liberia (Documents 609–612)
  - Treaty of extradition between the United States and Liberia, signed at Monrovia, November 1, 1937
  - Representations by the United States regarding Liberian customs regulations affecting free entry privileges for missionaries and diplomatic officers (Documents 613–620)
  - Concern of the United States regarding rumored Polish ambitions in Liberia (Documents 621–627)
  - Concern of the Department of State regarding possibility of German financial interest in proposed Dutch mineral concession (NEEP) in Liberia (Documents 628–649)
- Morocco: (Documents 650–671)
  - Proposed abolition of capitulatory rights of the United States in the French Zone of Morocco (Documents 650–671)
- Palestine: (Documents 672–716)
  - Interest of the United States in British proposals for the partition of Palestine between Arabs and Jews (Documents 672–716)
- Syria and the Lebanon: (Documents 717–731)
  - Confirmation by the French High Commission of the continued application of the Knabenshue–Gouraud Agreement regarding protection by the United States of naturalized Americans of Syrian or Lebanese origin (Documents 717–731)
  - Agreement between the United States and France regarding customs privileges for educational, religious, and philanthropic institutions in Syria and the Lebanon
- Tanganyika Territory: (Documents 732–733)
  - Reservation by the United States of its rights as affected by changes of the frontier between the mandated territories of Tanganyika and Ruanda Urundi (Documents 732–733)
- Turkey: (Documents 734–752)
  - Preliminary discussions respecting a trade agreement between the United States and Turkey (Documents 734–748)
  - Adjustment of payments due to the United States by Turkey under the agreement of December 24, 1923, and subsequent supplemental agreements (Documents 749–752)
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