Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, 1924, Volume I

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The Secretary of State to the Minister in Albania (Grant-Smith)

Washington, March 25, 1924.

No. 83

Sir: Your despatch No. 208 of January 23, 1924¹⁰ reporting that on the same date a Treaty of Commerce and Navigation was signed at Rome between Italy and Albania¹¹ has been received.

The Department desires your opinion as to the advisability of undertaking the negotiation of a treaty in the near future to define and regularize the relations between the United States and Albania. Your views as to the points which it might eventually be desirable to cover in such a treaty would also be helpful. In this connection a copy of the Albanian Treaty with Italy, which you say you will forward to the Department as soon as it can be obtained, would be useful.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

William Phillips

10. Not printed.
11. For text of treaty, which was signed Jan. 20, see League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. xliv, p. 359.