711.48V2/10
The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador (Howard)
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your Note No. 52 of January 31, 1929, bringing to my attention certain particulars in which His Majesty’s Government desires to have Articles 2, 3 and 9 of the Treaty of Amity and Commerce of 1833 between the United States and Muscat revised in so far as concerns the British Protectorate of Zanzibar.
You inquire whether you may assume that this Government is prepared to accept in principle the modifications of those articles proposed by His Majesty’s Government in the concluding paragraphs of your note.
In reply I have the honor to inform you that sympathetic consideration will be given to the proposals made by His Majesty’s Government and that I shall be glad to inform you at as early a date as possible of the views which this Government entertains in regard to them after it shall have given consideration to them.
Accept [etc.]