Allied Finance Ministers' Conference at

Paris. See Reparations: Finance
Ministers' Conference.

American Red Cross, relief funds for use
in Syria and the Lebanon, 107, 108,
109, 111, 113, 114, 115
Arbitration. See Haiti: Loan of 1910;
Netherlands: Arbitration; and
under Iraq: Turkish Petroleum
Co.: Dispute.

Arms and ammunition. See under
Honduras: Revolutionary activities.
Australia, visit of U. S. Fleet, arrange-
ments for, 281-285

See Estonia; Finland; Hungary;
Lithuania; Mexico : Treaty of amity
and commerce; Poland: Agreement
with United States; and under
Spain.

Commissions, committees, etc.:
Boundary Commission, International.
See under Mexico: Rio Grande
boundary dispute.

Interallied Military Commission of
Control in Germany. See Re-
parations: Rhineland.

Interallied Rhineland High Commis-
sion. See Reparations: Rhine-
land.

Liberian commission to negotiate loan
in United States. See under
Liberia: Finance Corporation of
America loan.

Reparation Commission.

See Rep-
arations: Tank ships; Turkey;
Turkish gold deposits.

Concessions, contracts, etc. See Iraq:
Turkish Petroleum Co.; Liberia :
Firestone rubber concession; Rus-
sia: Sinclair Exploration Co.
Conference of Allied Finance Ministers
at Paris. See Reparations: Fi-
nance Ministers' Conference.
Conventions. See Treaties, conven-
tions, etc.

Cuba:

Negotiations with United States for
treaties regarding-

Consular rights, 14-15, 17-18, 22-23,
30, 31

Extradition, 15-16, 18, 24-28, 30;
signature, Jan. 14, 1926, 30n
Smuggling, prevention of, 15, 16-17,
18, 18-22, 28-30

Treaty of Mar. 2, 1904, with United
States for adjustment of title to
ownership of the Isle of Pines:
Text, 11-13

U. S. ratification: Advice and con-
sent of the Senate, with reser-
vation and understanding, 11,
13; exchange of notes with
Cuba regarding U. S. reserva-
tion, 13-14; status of the island
and scope of treaty-making
power in regard to, discussions
leading to ratification of treaty,
1-11

Dawes annuities. See Finance Minis-
ters' Conference: Agreement, and
Rhineland under Reparations.
Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Ge-
sellschaft. See Reparations: Tank
ships.
Dillon, Read & Co., proposed loan to
Czechoslovak Government, U. S.
policy, 39-40, 40, 44
Diplomatic and consular officers. See
under Panama.
Dominican Republic, notes exchanged

between U. S. Secretary of State
and Dominican Minister explana-
tory of the convention of Dec. 27,
1924: Negotiations, 46-55; texts,
55-58

Druse uprising. See Syria and the
Lebanon.

East Africa. See under Mandates.
Ecuador:

Cacao Growers Association, indebted-

ness, claim of Mercantile Bank
of the Americas: Agreement be-
tween the bank and the associa-
tion for settlement; 63-64; U. S.
representations to Ecuador, and
Ecuadoran attitude, 59-62
Revolutionary government: Coup

d'état, report concerning, 64;
Ecuadoran consular officers, U. S.
permission to function without
exequaturs, 65; U. S. withholding
of recognition, 64-65
Estonia: Agreement with United States
for mutual unconditional most-
favored-nation treatment in cus-
toms matters, signed Mar. 2, 66-69;
treaty of friendship, commerce and
consular rights with United States,
and accompanying protocol, texts
signed Dec. 23, 70-85

customs matters: Negotiations,
86-94; ratification by Finland,
98-99; texts of notes signed May
2, 94-98

Tonnage dues and other charges:
Negotiations, 99-101; ratification
by Finland, 104; texts of notes
signed Dec. 21, 101-104
Firestone Rubber Co., concession in
Liberia. See under Liberia.

France (see also Greece; Haiti: Loan

of 1910; Morocco; Syria and the
Lebanon; Russia: Russian gold):
American residents, income tax ex-
emptions:

Complaints of American residents
against certain conditions, 130
French law regarding, 127, 131
U. S. efforts to secure reciprocal ex-
emptions to Americans living
in France, 127–129, 130; French
attitude, and settlement of
question, 129-130, 131-132
Consular convention of 1853 with
United States, tax provision, 132
Liberian-French boundary dispute,

U. S. good offices at request of
Liberia, 495-499

Persia, government of Reza Shah
Pahlavi, French recognition, 681n
Turkish Petroleum Co. concession in

Iraq, French attitude concerning
proposed arbitration of dispute in
connection with, 241-242

Germany (see also Reparations; Tur-
key Turkish gold deposits; Rus-
sia: Russian gold):
Arrangement with United States

granting relief from double in-
come tax on shipping profits,
188-198

Loans by American bankers to Ger-
man states and municipalities:
Attitude of German business men,

173-174; of German Govern-
ment, 172-173, 178-179, 180-181,
181-182, 182-183, 187
Reports concerning certain loans,

174-175, 176, 181, 182-183, 187
Transfer Committee for reparation
payments, attitude toward
service of loans, 176-177, 180,
181, 182
U. S. policy:

Recommendations of U. S. Am-
bassador, 174, 175–176

Germany-Continued.

Loans by American bankers, etc.—Con.
U. S. policy-Continued.

Specimen letter for replying to
bankers' inquiries:
Inquiries from U. S. unofficial
representative on Repara-
tion Commission, and U. S.
replies, 176-178, 179-180
Text: Initial form, 177–178;
revised form, discussions
and example, 183-187

U. S. communication to Harris,
Forbes & Co., 186-187
Persia, government of Reza Shah
Pahlavi, German recognition,
681n

Gold transferred by Germany to Allied
and Associated Powers. See Rus-
sia Russian gold; Turkey: Turk-
ish gold.

Good offices of United States in dispute

between Honduran Government
and British bondholders, 338-340;
in Franco-Liberian boundary dis-
pute, 495-499.

Good offices of U. S. Minister in pacify-
ing Indian revolt in Panama, 657-
662

Grapes, importation into United States

from Spain, question of, 708, 709,
712, 714, 716, 717, 718, 721
Great Britain (see also Greece; Iraq;
Mandates; Morocco: Statute of
Tangier; Persia: Opium traffic;
Reparations; Russia: Russian
gold):

Arrangement between United States,

Great Britain, and Northern Ire-
land granting relief from double
income tax on shipping profits,
267-273

Arrangement between United States,
Great Britain, Canada, and New-
foundland regulating wireless
broadcasting by ships off their
coasts, 273-277
Embargo on American potato ship-
ments into British Isles:
Information and reports concern-
ing, 277, 279-280

U. S. protests, based on nonembargo
of Canadian potatoes, 277–279,
280-281; British inability to
withdraw embargo, and order
prohibiting Canadian potatoes,
281
Honduras: Arms shipments from
British Honduras to revolution-
ists, question of, 328-329; debt
to British bondholders, U. S. good
offices in promoting settlement,
338-340

Liberian customs

administration,

British policy, 484-485

Great Britain-Continued.

Mexican alien land bill, British at-
titude, 527

Persia, government of Reza Shah
Pahlavi, British recognition, 678,
681n

Rubber export restrictions (see also
"Stevenson Scheme," infra), 384,
430, 442
"Stevenson Scheme" for restrictions
on raw rubber exports from Brit-
ish possessions, effect on Ameri-
can rubber manufacturing in-
dusty:

Memorandum by Rubber Associa-

tion of America, Inc., 245-253
Negotiations of American rubber
interests for formation of syn-
dicate to regulate prices: Re-
ports concerning, 262, 263-264,
266; Stevenson's attitude, 263;
U. S. disapproval of price fix-
ing, 264-265

U. S. efforts to obtain relief for
American manufacturers:
Representations to Great Britain,

253-256, 259, 261-262; Brit-
ish attitude, and measures
taken to ease situation, 256-
259, 262, 266-267

Suggestions of U. S. Ambassador,
259-261; U. S. attitude, 262
U. S. Fleet, arrangements for visit
to Australia and New Zealand,
281-285

Greece, loan of $10,000,000 and supple-
mentary loan of $1,000,000 by
Ulen & Co. under contract for wa-
terworks construction:

Assent of governments under loan
agreement of 1918 to the pledging
of certain securities by Greece:
Great Britain and France, U. S.

inquiries, 290-292; British and
French consent, 292-293
United States, Greek requests and

U. S. approval, 286-288, 288-289.
Placing of issues in United States,
U. S. approval, 288, 289
Ulen & Co.'s appreciation for U. S.
assistance in negotiations, 293
Guatemala. See Honduras: Revolu-
tionary activities.

Gulbenkian, C. S. See Iraq: Turkish
Petroleum Co.

Haiti:

Elections:

Electoral law, U. S. efforts for re-
vision:

Deficiencies of present law: Mem-
orandum regarding, 300–302;
suggested alterations in law
for use in 1926 communal
elections, 302-303

Haiti-Continued.

Elections-Continued.

Electoral law, etc.-Continued.
Drafts of new legislation pre-
pared by U. S. High Commis-
sioner, U. S. request and
discussion, 298-299, 302, 303
Expert on electoral matters, pro-
posed, 299-300
Postponement of legislative elec-

tions (see also Electoral law,
supra), opinions of President
Borno:
Memorandum of views, 294–298;

U. S. attitude, 298
Public statement of reasons for
deferring elections: Sugges-
tion by United States as to
advisability of issuing, 303-
304; text of circular letter to
prefects of arrondissements,
304-308

Loan of 1910, question of payment in
gold, French request for U. S.
good offices to induce Haiti to
consent to arbitration, 308–310;
U. S. refusal, 310-315

Harris, Forbes & Co., interest in loan
to a German municipality, 186-187
Honduras:

British bondholders, U. S. good offices
in promoting settlement with
Honduran Government, 338-340
Constitutional government, inaugura-
tion, 316 317

Good offices of United States in pro-
moting a settlement between
Honduran Government and Brit-
ish bondholders, 338-340

Political situation.

See Revolution-

ary activities, infra.

Honduras-Continued.

Revolutionary activities, etc.-Contd.
Joint action by Central American
Republics to reestablish order,
Nicaraguan proposal and U. S.
attitude, 335-336

Reports concerning disorders, 322,
323, 324, 328

Salvadoran armed aid, proposed,
U. S. attitude, 328

U. S. citizens, protection of, 324,
326, 330-331, 332

U. S. policy concerning active as-
sistance to Honduras, 332, 336,
337

U. S. representations to Guatemala
and Nicaragua regarding main-
tenance of order along fron-
tiers, 323-324, 325; measures
taken by Guatemala and Nica-
ragua to control situation, 324,
326-328,
332

U. S. warships and marines, 324,
326, 330-331

U. S. assistance to Honduran Govern-
ment in maintaining political
stability. See Revolutionary ac-

tivities, supra.

U. S. resumption of formal relations
with Honduras, upon inaugura-
tion of new constitutional govern-
ment, 316-317

Hungary, treaty of friendship, com-
merce, and consular rights with
United States: Reservations and
understandings, exchanges of notes
regarding, 354-357; text signed
June 24, 341–354

Panama.