Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1923, Volume II

438.00/229: Telegram

The High Commissioner in Haiti (Russell) to the Secretary of State

Port au Prince, April 3, 1923—1 p.m.
[Received 2:43 p.m.]

47. Department is informed that the opinion of Judge Strong, legal adviser, in which I concur, is that jurisdiction of Claims Commission is limited to pecuniary claims pending on the date of the exchange of the ratifications of the treaty, May 3, 1916.²⁴

Russell

24. ibid., 1916, p. 328.