1921. TREATY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, THE BRITISH EMPIRE, FRANCE, AND JAPAN RELATING TO THEIR INSULAR POSSESSIONS AND INSULAR DOMINIONS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Signed at Washington December 13, 1921; ratification advised by the Senate March 24, 1922 (legislative day of March 16). (Not in force on March 4, 1923.) ARTICLES. I. Mutual respect of insular rights | III. Duration; effect. in region of Pacific Ocean; con- II. Mutual communication respecting threat of aggressive action by IV. Ratification; termination of agreement of Anglo-Japanese The United States of America, the British Empire, France and Japan, With a view to the preservation of the general peace and the maintenance of their rights in relation to their insular possessions and insular dominions in the region of the Pacific Ocean, Have determined to conclude a Treaty to this effect and have appointed as their Plenipotentiaries: The President of the United States of America: Charles Evans Hughes, Henry Cabot Lodge, Oscar W. Underwood and Elihu Root, citizens of the United States; His Majesty the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, Emperor of India: And The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, O. M., M. P., The Right Honourable Baron Lee of Fareham, G. B. E.. The Right Honourable Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, for the Dominion of Canada: The Right Honourable Robert Laird Borden, G. C. M. G., K. C.: for the Commonwealth of Australia: The Honourable George Foster Pearce, Minister of Defence; for the Dominion of New Zealand: Sir John William Salmond, K. C., Judge of the Supreme for the Union of South Africa: The Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, O. M., M. P.; for India: The Right Honourable Valingman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri, Member of the Indian Council of State; The President of the French Republic: Mr. René Viviani, Deputy, Former President of the Council of Ministers: Mr. Albert Sarraut, Deputy, Minister of the Colonies; Mr. Jules J. Jusserand, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States of America, Grand Cross of the National Order of the Legion of Honour; His Majesty the Emperor of Japan: Baron Tomosaburo Kato, Minister for the Navy, Junii, a Baron Kijuro Shidehara, His Ambassador Extraordinary and Mr. Masanao Hanihara, Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs, Who, having communicated their Full Powers, found in good and due form, have agreed as follows: I. The High Contracting Parties agree as between themselves to respect their rights in relation to their insular possessions and insular dominions in the region of the Pacific Ocean. If there should develop between any of the High Contracting Parties a controversy arising out of any Pacific question and involving their said rights which is not satisfactorily settled by diplomacy and is likely to affect the harmonious accord now happily subsisting between them, they shall invite the other High Contracting Parties to a joint conference to which the whole subject will be referred for consideration and adjustment. II. If the said rights are threatened by the aggressive action of any other Power, the High Contracting Parties shall communicate with one another fully and frankly in order to arrive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken, jointly or separately, to meet the exigencies of the particular situation. III. This Treaty shall remain in force for ten years from the time it shall take effect, and after the expiration of said period it shall continue to be in force subject to the right of any of the High Contracting Parties to terminate it upon twelve months' notice. IV. This Treaty shall be ratified as soon as possible in accordance with the constitutional methods of the High Contracting Parties and shall take effect on the deposit of ratifications, which shall take place at Washington, and thereupon the agreement between Great Britain and Japan, which was concluded at London on July 13, 1911, shall terminate. The Government of the United States will transmit to all the Signatory Powers a certified copy of the procesverbal of the deposit of ratifications. The present Treaty, in French and in English, shall remain deposited in the Archives of the Government of the United States, and duly certified copies thereof will be transmitted by that Government to each of the Signatory Powers. In faith whereof the above named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty. Done at the City of Washington, the thirteenth day of December, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Twenty-One. RESOLUTION OF THE SENATE ADVISING AND CONSENTING TO Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein), That the Senate advise and consent to the ratification of Executive N, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, a treaty between the United States, the British Empire, France, and Japan relating to their insular possessions and insular dominions in the Pacific Ocean, concluded at Washington, December 13, 1921, subject to the following reservation and understanding, which is hereby made a part and condition of this resolution of ratification: The United States understands that under the statement in the preamble or under the terms of this treaty there is no commitment to armed force, no alliance, no obligation to join in any defense. DECLARATION ACCOMPANYING THE TREATY. In signing the Treaty this day between The United States of America, The British Empire, France and Japan, it is declared to be the understanding and intent of the Signatory Powers: 1. That the Treaty shall apply to the Mandated Islands in the Pacific Ocean; provided, however, that the making of the Treaty shall not be deemed to be an assent on the part of The United States of America to the mandates and shall not preclude agreements between The United States of America and the Mandatory Powers respectively in relation to the mandated islands. 2. That the controversies to which the second paragraph of Article I refers shall not be taken to embrace questions which according to principles of international law lie exclusively within the domestic jurisdiction of the respective Powers. Washington, D. C., December 13, 1921. CHARLES EVANS HUGHES ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR A. C. GEDDES R. L. BORDEN. G. F. PEARCE JOHN W SALMOND ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR A SARRAUT JUSSERAND Τ. ΚΑΤΟ K. SHIDEHARA TOKUGAWA IYESATO NOTES DELIVERED, MUTATIS MUTANDIS, BY THE SIGNATORIES OF THE TREATY TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE NETHERLANDS AND TO THE PORTUGUESE GOVERNMENT RELATIVE TO RESPECTING THEIR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO THEIR INSULAR POSSESSIONS IN THE REGION OF THE PACIFIC OCEAN. Delivered at The Hague February 4, 1922; Delivered at Lisbon February 6, 1922 The following communication is Senate Document No. 128, Sixtyseventh Congress, second session : STATE DEPARTMENT, Washington, February 11, 1922. MY DEAR SENATOR: Referring to our conversations in relation to the note given to the Netherlands Government, I beg to say that the following is a copy of the note which was delivered to the minister for foreign affairs of the Netherlands, on February 4, 1922: "The United States of America have concluded on December 13, 1921, with the British Empire, France, and Japan, a treaty, with a view to the preservation of the general peace and the maintenance of their rights in relation to their insular possessions and insular |