711.639 Legal Protection/2
The Austrian Minister (Prochnik) to the Under Secretary of State (Olds)
Washington, July 21,
1927.
My Dear Mr. Under Secretary of State: Reverting
to our conversation of today, I take the liberty of outlining in the
enclosed memorandum the subject which the Austrian Government is anxious
to regulate by convention to be negotiated and concluded with the
Government of the United States.
You would do me a great favor by having me advised in due course of the
attitude of your Government in regard to this question.
Kindly accept [etc.]
[Enclosure]
Memorandum
At the International Immigration and Emigration Conference in Rome in
1925 [1924]14 a
resolution was adopted advising all those countries which heretofore
did not enter into agreements relating to mutual aid in the
administration of justice, that they should grant by special
conventions to immigrants and their families equal rights with their
own citizens in matters of legal protection.
Although the American delegation to said Conference did not join the
abovereferred to resolution the Austrian Government hope that the
Government of the United States may be inclined to enter into
negotiations with a view of concluding a treaty assuring legal
protection and mutual assistance in the interest of administration
of justice in general and granting in particular certain exemptions
from
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fees and other dues
in cases where the parties in litigation are found to be destitute
of means and freeing the citizens of each of the contracting parties
from a necessity of furnishing bond when they wish to enter suit in
one of the courts of the other.
As to the two latter points (paupers exemption and freedom from bond)
the Austrian Government have in mind the relating stipulations in
the Convention relating to civil procedure (Convention relative à la
procédure civile) which was concluded in the Hague on July 17th,
1905.15
