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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

PUBLICATION 2330

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CONTENTS

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LIST OF PAPERS..

FINLAND:

...

Continuation of negotiations for an agreement regarding naturalization,

dual nationality, and military service...

FRANCE:

Negotiations for a treaty between the United States and France regarding

double taxation.....

Efforts to reach an understanding with France for reciprocal recognition of

American and French legislation regarding inspection of vessels.......

Permission for American airplanes to fly over and land in French colonies

in the West Indies and South America.....

Suit of Princess Zizianoff against Consul Donald F. Bigelow, involving

question of consular immunity..

GERMANY:

Increasing strength of the National Socialist Party.....

Informal representations by the German Ambassador with respect to dis-

armament and the possible modification of the Pact of Paris.

Loans by American banks to the German Government....

92

96

Agreement providing for the discharge of Germany's war indebtedness to

the United States, signed June 23, 1930.......

Admission to the United States of German student laborers...

106

109

Reciprocal treatment to be accorded by the United States and Germany

to consular staffs in the payment of import duties and other taxes..

Extradition treaty between the United States and Germany, signed July

12, 1930......

116

120

Expulsion from Germany of Jack Diamond..

129

GREAT BRITAIN:

Supplementary treaty on tenure and disposition of real and personal

property between the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and New

Zealand......

... 134

Refusal of the British Government to exempt American consular officers

from income tax on nonofficial income derived from sources outside the

United Kingdom...

Convention between the United States and Great Britain and exchange of

notes regarding the boundary between the Philippine Archipelago and

the State of North Borneo, signed January 2, 1930...

141

147

Proposed revision, with respect to Zanzibar, of the treaty of amity and

commerce between the United States and Muscat (Oman), signed

September 21, 1833.....

155

Inquiry regarding alleged opposition to American investments in India.. 161

GREECE:

Treaties of arbitration and conciliation between the United States and

Greece, signed June 19, 1930....

GUATEMALA:

Revolution in Guatemala...

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172

Inability of the Government of the United States to undertake to extend

direct assistance to the Government of Guatemala to obtain a loan.... 193

Boundary dispute with Honduras. (See volume I, General.)

HAITI:

The President's Commission for the study and review of conditions in the

Republic of Haiti....

198

Assumption by the Minister in Haiti of functions previously exercised by

the American High Commissioner.....

255

Negotiations between the United States and Haiti for the Haitianization of

the Treaty Services...

261

HEJAZ AND NEJD:

Disinclination of the United States to enter into diplomatic relations with

the Kingdom of the Hejaz and of Nejd....

281

HONDURAS:

Boundary dispute with Guatemala.

Boundary dispute with Nicaragua. (See volume I, General.)

ICELAND:

(See volume I, General.)

Arbitration treaty between the United States and Iceland, signed May 15,

1930....

286

IRAQ:

Convention between the United States, Great Britain, and Iraq regarding

the rights of the United States and of its nationals in Iraq, signed

January 9, 1930.....

291

Good offices to American firms interested in entering the Iraq oil fields..... 309

ITALY:

Denial by the Secretary of State of reports that the United States Govern-

ment, as a means of bringing pressure for disarmament, was disapproving

loans to Italy...

312

JAPAN:

The exclusion clause of the American Immigration Act of May 26, 1924... 315

LATVIA:

Treaties of arbitration and conciliation between the United States and

Latvia, signed January 14, 1930.....

318

Representations against the application of a residence or sojourn tax on

American citizens in Latvia...

322

LIBERIA:

Denial of reports regarding possibility of intervention in Liberia by the

United States or other Powers....

329

Investigation of forced labor conditions in Liberia by an international

commission; opposition to proposed reforms; resignation of President

King....

336

Financial difficulties of the Government of Liberia and its alleged failure

to perform its obligations under the Loan Agreement of 1926......

Interest of the Department of State in sanitary reforms for Liberia.

394

415

LIBERIA-Continued.

Appointment of George W. Lewis as Major in the Liberian Frontier Force

under the 1926 Loan Agreement...

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445

Appointment of Charles I. McCaskey as Acting Financial Adviser to the

Republic of Liberia in the absence of John Loomis...

459

MEXICO:

Proposed agreement between Mexico and the International Committee of

Bankers on Mexico.....

462

Consideration of en bloc settlement of claims between the United States and

Mexico and arrangement regarding meetings of the Claims Commissions. 495

Temporary closing of the Mexican Consulate at Laredo, Texas, in reprisal

for threatened arrest of General Calles, former President of Mexico...... 508

Renewed negotiations for a settlement of the dispute over the Rio Grande

boundary..

Protection in Mexico of the trademarks of the Palmolive Company and

of Chickering and Sons...

535

560

MOROCCO:

......

Representations regarding American rights with respect to concession by

the Tangier Administration in Morocco.......

Inability of an American company to waive capitulatory rights enjoyed

by the United States in Morocco...

587

602

Restrictions on missionary activities in the French Zone in Morocco.

Negotiations concerning claims and proposed recognition by the United

States of the Spanish Zone in Morocco..

603

605

NETHERLANDS:

Arbitration treaty between the United States and the Netherlands, signed

January 13, 1930...

622

NICARAGUA:

Assistance by the United States in the supervision of elections in Nicaragua. 636

Proposals for amending the Agreement establishing the Guardia Nacional

de Nicaragua and for reducing its expenses...

Assistance of the Department of State in reorganizing the finances of

Nicaragua.

... 656

693

Disapprobation by the Department of State of proposed constitutional

amendments to extend the term of officials at the time in office........ 695

Concern of the Department of State over repressive measures of President

Moncada...

......

Agreement between the United States and Nicaragua regarding transpor-

tation for United States Army engineers and survey of a railroad route..

Boundary dispute with Honduras. (See volume I, General.)

NORWAY:

Treaty between the United States and Norway for exemption from mili-

tary service or other act of allegiance of persons having dual nationality,

signed November 1, 1930....

PANAMA:

700

709

711

Authorization to the Panamanian Government to remove the statue of

Columbus from the grounds of the Washington Hotel at Colon........ 715