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POSTAL UNION OF THE AMERICAS AND SPAIN "

Dominican Republic

With a note dated November 2, 1932, the Spanish Ambassador at Washington transmitted to the Secretary of State a certificate of the act of deposit of the instrument of ratification by the Dominican Republic of the convention of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain and the agreement on registered mail, signed at Madrid November 10, 1931, at the conference of the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain. The deposit took place October 3, 1932.

SPANISH-AMERICAN POSTAL CONVENTION

The Spanish Ambassador at Washington, by a note dated November 1, 1932, informed the Secretary of State that in view of the ratification by both the United States and Spain of the postal convention of the Americas and Spain, signed at Madrid November 10, 1931, he had been instructed by his Government to give notification of the denunciation by Spain of the Spanish-American postal convention, signed at Madrid November 13, 1920, in order to avoid the existence at the same time of two different conventions on the same subject between the same countries.

Philippine Islands

UNIVERSAL POSTAL CONVENTION

On November 23, 1932, the President approved the ratification by the Postal Administration of the Philippine Islands of the universal postal convention and regulations, and the final protocol, signed at London June 28, 1929.

The instrument of ratification has been forwarded to London for deposit with the British Government.

Poland

RADIO

INTERNATIONAL RADIO CONVENTION

The instrument of ratification by Poland of the international radio convention signed at Washington November 25, 1927, together with the general and supplementary regulations thereto, was deposited in the archives of the Department of State on November 30, 1932.

* See Bulletin No. 37, October, 1932, p. 14.

STATISTICS

INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION RELATING TO ECONOMIC STATISTICS

Netherland Indies

Under date of October 6, 1932, the Netherland Government addressed to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations a note containing the reservations subject to which that Government desires to render applicable to the Netherland Indies the international convention relating to economic statistics, signed at Geneva December 14, 1928. By a circular letter dated October 22, 1932, the Secretary-General of the League communicated a copy of the abovementioned note, for information, to the members of the League of Nations and to nonmember states authorized to become parties to the convention.

The text of the Netherland Government's note is as follows:

SIR,

THE HAGUE, October 6th, 1932.

In your letter dated September 19th last, 10B/24645/9057, you were good enough to inform me of the deposit with the Secretariat of the League of Nations on September 13th, 1932, of the instrument of ratification by Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands regarding the international Convention of December 14th, 1928, concerning Economic Statistics.

As stipulated in the said instrument, this ratification only applied to the territory of the Netherlands in Europe; at the time of ratifying the Convention the Netherlands Government did not intend to assume any obligation as regards the various Netherlands overseas territories.

Nevertheless, I have the honour to inform you that the Netherlands Government is prepared to render the said Convention applicable to the Netherlands Indies, subject to the reservations set out below:

1. The following shall not be applicable:

a. The provisions of Article 2, III, E) and V;
b. The provisions concerning the system of valuations
known as "declared values" mentioned in An-
nex I, Part I, § II (See Article 3);

c. Article 3, paragraph 2.

2. The returns mentioned in Article 2, IV, shall only apply to coal, petroleum, natural gas, tin, manganese, gold and silver. 3. The statistics of foreign trade mentioned in Article 3 shall not comprise tables concerning transit.

I venture to request you to communicate these reservations, in accordance with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Convention, to the 'See Bulletin No. 37, October, 1932, p. 15.

Governments of all countries on whose behalf ratifications or accessions have been deposited, and to enquire whether they have any objection thereto. I should be obliged if you would notify me in due course of any objections made by these Governments.

I have [etc.]

For the Minister:
A. M. SNOUCK HURGRONJE,

Secretary-General.

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The American Ambassador to Mexico forwarded to the Secretary of State with a despatch dated October 21, 1932, translations of two decrees, published in the Diario Oficial of October 20 and 21, 1932, by which the President of Mexico promulgated his approval, as of October 6, 1932, of the special and general claims conventions and the protocols thereto, signed June 18, 1932, between the United States and Mexico.

CONSULAR

CONVENTION ON CONSULAR AGENTS 2

Dominican Republic

By a letter dated September 27, 1932, the Secretary of State informed the Director General of the Pan American Union that the reservations made in respect of articles 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, and 21 by the Government of the Dominican Republic in its instrument of ratification of the convention on consular agents, adopted at the Sixth International Conference of American States, Habana, February, 1928, "being of the nature of amendments which would deprive the convention of a large part of its value are unacceptable to the Executive and will not be laid before the Senate of the United States whose advice and consent to their acceptance would in any event be required," and that "the Government of the United States of America does not regard the convention as ratified by the Dominican Republic to be in effect between the United States of America and that Republic."

The specific reasons for this action are set forth as follows in an instruction dated September 27, 1932, to the American Minister at Santo Domingo:

"On May 16, 1932, the Director General of the Pan American Union furnished to the Department of State a certified copy of the

1 See Bulletin No. 33, June, 1932, p. 18. See Bulletin No. 32, May, 1932, p. 18.

instrument of ratification by the Dominican Republic of the convention on consular agents adopted at the Sixth International Conference of American States at Habana. By this instrument it appeared. that the ratification of the convention by the Dominican Republic is made with two reservations, namely,

"(1) That the Dominican Republic declines to approve Articles 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, and 21, of the convention, and,

"(2) That the word "delito" (crime), in Article 14 shall be construed to include "delitos, crímenes y contravenciones " (crimes, felonies and misdemeanors), and that the expression "materia criminal (criminal matters) in Article 17 shall be construed to include all penal matters.

"After giving these reservations full consideration, the Department has been constrained to inform the Director General of the Pan American Union that the reservation in respect of the excision of Articles 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, and 21, being of the nature of amendments which would deprive the convention of a large part of its value, are unacceptable to the executive and will not be laid before the Senate of the United States of America whose advice and consent to that acceptance would in any event be required; and that consequently the Government of the United States of America does not regard the convention, as ratified by the Dominican Republic, to be in effect between the Government of the United States of America and that Republic.

"Notification of this Government's attitude towards the reservations as made to the Director General will doubtless be communicated by him to the Dominican Government; but it may be that that Government will seek of you the specific reasons which have influenced this Government's action. In that case you may make to the Minister for Foreign Affairs a statement as follows:

"The purpose of the project for an inter-American convention concerning consular agents was to have a convention which would provide a uniform practice in regard to consular officers among all the American Republics as extensive in scope as possible. While the Government of the United States might have no particular objection in principle to the interpretation placed by the second reservation of the Dominican Republic on Articles 14 and 17, the excision from the convention of Articles 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, and 21, as proposed by the Dominican Republic would defeat this purpose and leave the remaining articles of the convention of no importance since they contain practically nothing which has not for many years been accepted and in common use throughout the world. To accept the convention with the articles enumerated eliminated would be an apparent relinquishment on the part of the United States of the attitude it has consistently maintained in regard to the rights and immunities of consular officers and would in effect place the United States in the position virtually of admitting, which it cannot do, that, a case arising—

"(1) The United States would not protest and insist that their consular officers are not subject to local jurisdiction for their official acts:

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