No. 380 The American Chargé d'Affaires to the Minister of Foreign Affairs MR. MINISTER: AMERICAN LEGATION COPENHAGEN, September 29, 1925 I have the honor to make the following statement of my understanding of the agreement concluded on behalf of the Government of the United States and the Royal Danish Government with respect to the reciprocal suppression by both countries, and the validity, of the fees for nonimmigrant visas. It is understood that Fees for the visas, and applications therefor, of Danish nonimmigrants, are abolished, on condition that the fees for the visas, and applications therefor, are waived for citizens of the United States. Visas granted by the Danish authorities to American subjects, and by the authorities of the United States to Danish subjects, are valid for one year, and are good for repeated entry into respectively Denmark and the United States, provided that the passport does not expire within that period. The above agreement is effective from August 6, 1925. I have the honor to request Your Excellency's confirmation of the accord thus reached. I avail myself of this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurances of my highest consideration. OLIVER B. HARRIMAN Count CARL MOLTKE, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Copenhagen Chargé d'Affaires a. i. NARCOTIC DRUGS Exchange of notes at Copenhagen February 3 and April 23, 1928 Department of State files No. 116 The American Minister to the Minister of Foreign Affairs MR. MINISTER: COPENHAGEN, February 3rd, 1928 I have the honor to inform your Excellency that my Government, desiring to bring about a stricter control of the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, proposes as a means the organization of a closer cooperation between appropriate administrative officials of the United States of America and those of certain European Governments. For this purpose, I am instructed to propose to your Excellency's government the following measures: (1) The direct exchange between the Department of the Treasury and the corresponding Danish Department of information and evidence with reference to persons engaged in this illicit traffic. This information and evidence would include photographs, criminal records, finger prints, Bertillon measurements, descriptions of the methods which the persons in question have been found to use, the places from which they have operated, the partners they have worked with, etc. (2) The immediate direct forwarding of information by letter or cable as to the suspected movements of narcotic drugs or of persons involved in smuggling drugs, if such movements may concern the other country. Unless such information as this reaches its destination directly and speedily, it is useless. (3) Mutual cooperation in detective and investigating work. The officer of the Treasury Department who would have charge on behalf of my Government of the cooperation in the suppression of the illicit traffic in narcotics is Colonel L. G. Nutt, whose mail and telegraph address is: "Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Narcotics, Treasury Department, Washington, D. C." I trust that this proposition of my Government will obtain the agreement of the Royal Government and in this case I beg you to be kind enough to inform me of the name and official position of the Royal official with whom Colonel Nutt could correspond. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to you, Mr. Minister, the assurances of my highest consideration. In continuation of its Note Verbale of April 11th last the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, after having consulted the competent authorities, has the honor to inform the Legation of the United States of America that those authorities have reported that contraventions of the provisions of the legislation on opium in Denmark are relatively rare and that the international rules to prevent all attempts to evade the law already necessitate, with reference to their practical importance for Denmark, a considerable work of control and correspondence. Nevertheless, the Danish authorities have declared that they are quite disposed, in cases where contraventions of importance, especially for America, may be brought to the knowledge of the Health Administration of Denmark, to advise the competent American authorities of the same by transmitting to them all the information relative thereto. The Health Administration will, for its part, be pleased to receive such information as the United States may consider to be of importance for Denmark. COPENHAGEN, April 23, 1928. ARBITRATION Treaty signed at Washington June 14, 1928 Senate advice and consent to ratification December 18, 1928 Ratifications exchanged at Washington April 17, 1929 Proclaimed by the President of the United States April 17, 1929 46 Stat. 2265; Treaty Series 784 The President of the United States of America and His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland Determined to prevent so far as in their power lies any interruption in the peaceful relations that have always existed between the United States and Denmark; Desirous of reaffirming their adherence to the policy of submitting to impartial decision all justiciable controversies that may arise between the two countries; and Eager by their example not only to demonstrate their condemnation of war as an instrument of national policy in their mutual relations, but also to hasten the time when the perfection of international arrangements for the pacific settlement of international disputes shall have eliminated forever the possibility of war among any of the Powers of the world; Have decided to conclude a new treaty of arbitration enlarging the scope and obligations of the arbitration convention signed at Washington on May 18, 1908,1 which expired by limitation on March 29, 1914, and for that purpose they have appointed as their respective Plenipotentiaries The President of the United States of America: Mr. Frank B. Kellogg, Secretary of State of the United States; His Majesty the King of Denmark and Iceland: Mr. Constantin Brun, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Washington; who, having communicated to one another their full powers found in good and due form, have agreed upon the following articles: ARTICLE I All differences relating to international matters in which the High Contracting Parties are concerned by virtue of a claim of right made by one against the other under treaty or otherwise, which it has not been possible to adjust by diplomacy, which have not been adjusted as a result of reference to the Permanent International Commission constituted pursuant to the treaty signed at Washington April 17, 1914,2 and which are justiciable in their nature by reason of being susceptible of decision by the application of the principles of law or equity, shall be submitted to the Permanent Court of Arbitration established at The Hague by the Convention of October 18, 1907,3 or to some other competent tribunal, as shall be decided in each case by special agreement, which special agreement shall provide for the organization of such tribunal if necessary, define its powers, state the question or questions at issue, and settle the terms of reference. The special agreement in each case shall be made on the part of the United States of America by the President of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and on the part of Denmark in accordance with its constitutional laws. ARTICLE II The provisions of this treaty shall not be invoked in respect of any dispute the subject matter of which (a) is within the domestic jurisdiction of either of the High Contracting Parties, (b) involves the interests of third Parties, (c) depends upon or involves the maintenance of the traditional attitude. of the United States concerning American questions, commonly described as the Monroe Doctrine, (d) depends upon or involves the observance of the obligations of Denmark in accordance with the Covenant of the League of Nations. ARTICLE III The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof and by Denmark in accordance with its constitutional laws. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible, and the treaty shall take effect on the date of the exchange of the ratifications. It shall thereafter remain in force continuously unless and until terminated *TS 608, ante, p. 53. a TS 536, ante, vol. 1, p. 577. |