ARTICLE XIII The present Treaty shall be ratified by the High Contracting Parties in accordance with their respective constitutional methods and shall take effect on the date of the exchange of ratifications which shall take place at Bangkok as soon as possible. ARTICLE XIV The present Treaty shall remain in force for a period of ten years, and in case neither of the High Contracting Parties shall have given notice one year before the expiration of that period of its intention to terminate the Treaty, it shall continue in force until the expiration of one year from the date on which such notice of termination shall be given by either of the High Contracting Parties. IN WITNESS WHEREOF the above named Plenipotentiaries have signed the present Treaty and have hereunto affixed their seals. DONE in duplicate at Bangkok this thirtieth day of December, nineteen hundred and twenty-two. [SEAL] EDWARD E. BRODIE [SEAL] DEVAWONGSE SPAIN ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND THANKS BY PRESIDENT HARDING TO THE KING OF SPAIN FOR THE PROTECTION OF AMERICAN INTERESTS IN ENEMY COUNTRIES 703.5200/orig. The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Willard) WASHINGTON, May 28, 1920. SIR: As a result of conditions over which this Government has no control-conditions which make it impossible at this time for the United States to appoint either diplomatic or consular officers in Germany, Austria, and Hungary-the work of the Spanish authorities in those countries in protecting the interests of the United States has been both extended in time and intensified in nature. You will therefore express to the Government to which you are accredited the deep appreciation of this Government for the work so cheerfully and efficiently accomplished by the Spanish authorities, requesting the Spanish Government to extend to its diplomatic and consular officers in Germany, Austria, and Hungary, the sincere thanks of the Government of the United States.1 I am [etc.] 703.5200/4a BAINBRIDGE COLBY The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Spain (Woods) WASHINGTON, January 21, 1922. No. 18 SIR: I enclose, with office copy, a sealed communication to the King of Spain, in which the President expresses to His Majesty the thanks and appreciation of the Government and people of the United States on account of the services rendered by Spanish officials in looking after American interests in Germany and Austria Hungary during the late war. You will please forward the office copy to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and deliver the original in the manner most agreeable to His Majesty. I am [etc.] For the Secretary of State: Copies of this instruction sent the Commissioners at Berlin, Budapest, and Vienna, June 2, 1920. [Enclosure] President Harding to King Alfonso XIII GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND: When by force of events the entry of the United States into the late war as a belligerent became inescapable, Your Majesty graciously consented to permit the diplomatic and consular officers of Spain to take charge of American interests in Germany and Austria-Hungary. For more than four years the task thus undertaken was performed by these officers, often with personal self-sacrifice, in a manner which left nothing to be desired by the Government of the United States, and with a willingness and an efficiency deserving and receiving the gratitude of that Government. While the Government of the United States has not failed to express its appreciation to individual Spanish officials, now that the resumption of diplomatic relations by the United States with Germany, Austria and Hungary has made unnecessary the further exercise of the good offices of Your Majesty's officers, I deem it a duty, in the discharge of which I find exceptional pleasure, to assure Your Majesty of the grateful thanks of the Government and people of the United States for Your Majesty's favor and of their high sense of appreciation of the valuable services which Your Majesty's officers have rendered in their behalf. May God have Your Majesty in His wise Keeping. By the President: CHARLES E. HUGHES Secretary of State WASHINGTON, January 13, 1922. 703.5200/6 WARREN G. HARDING The Spanish Ambassador (Riaño) to the Secretary of State 37-03 [Translation 2] WASHINGTON, June 15, 1922. MR. SECRETARY: I have the honor to forward to Your Excellency, together with the usual office copy and with a request that you kindly cause it to reach its high destination, the letter which His Majesty the King, my August Sovereign, sends to the President of the Republic of the United States in reply to that expressing the gratefulness of the North American people and Government for the mission assumed by Spain during the late war. JUAN RIAÑO I avail myself [etc.] "File translation revised. 32604 vol. 11-38-65 [Enclosure Translation'] King Alfonso XIII to President Harding GREAT AND GOOD FRIEND: We have been highly gratified at receiving your letter by which you were pleased to express to us the gratitude and regard of the people and Government of the United States for the mission undertaken by Spain during the course of the late war when it took charge of the protection of North Americans in Germany and Austria-Hungary. In receiving with sentiments of high consideration and esteem so great a testimonial of gratitude, we take pleasure in expressing to Your Excellency the satisfaction we derive from the praise addressed to the Spanish officials for their zeal in performing the duties placed upon them by the mission with which they were entrusted, the outcome no doubt of the good friendship which Spain bears to the United States. We pray God for your personal happiness and that of the North American people and take great pleasure in reiterating to you the assurances of our regard and the esteem with which we are Great and Good Friend Your Good Friend Countersigned JOAQUIN FERNÁNDEZ PRIDA Minister of State At the Palace in Madrid, May 16, 1922. ALFONSO DENOUNCEMENT BY SPAIN OF THE RECIPROCITY AGREEMENT OF AUGUST 1, 1906, BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SPAIN' 611.5231/146 The Spanish Ambassador (Riaño) to the Secretary of State No. 40-04 [Translation ®] WASHINGTON, November 5, 1922. MR. SECRETARY: In compliance with instructions from His Majesty's Government, I have the honor to address Your Excellency and to state that the Government of Spain denounces as of today, November 5, 1922, the "Reciprocity agreement between Spain and the United States" signed at San Sebastian August 1, 1906, in the exercise of the power conferred by Article III of the said Convention, which will therefore terminate on the 5th of November, 1923.* I avail [etc.] JUAN RIAÑO 8 File translation revised. For text of agreement, see Foreign Relations, 1906, pt. 2, p. 1342. "The agreement of Aug. 1, 1906, however, had been terminated, effective Aug. 7, 1810, upon notice of the United States to the Government of Spain through its Minister, under date of Aug. 7, 1909. The notice also included the supplemental commercial agreement between the United States and Spain concluded on Feb. 20, 1909. See ibid., 1909, pp. 549-551. 611.5231/150 The Ambassador in Spain (Woods) to the Secretary of State No. 380 MADRID, November 14, 1922. SIR: Confirming my cable No. 66 of November 9, 1 P. M., I have the honor to transmit herewith, in copy and translation, the text of the Note, No. 139, received November 9, 1922, under date of November 5, 1922, from the Minister for Foreign Affairs. The Department will note that the Minister of State, in accordance with Spanish Tariff Law, denounces, on one year's notice, the Commercial Agreement of August 1, 1906, as provided for in Article 3 thereof. The Department, moreover, will observe that the Minister of State recognizes the 1906 Agreement as being in full force and effect, and expresses on behalf of the Spanish Government the desire to reach an agreement for the negotiation of a new commercial treaty. The Department is aware that many advantages have been conceded by Spain to France, England, Switzerland and other countries through treaties which she has recently negotiated on the "quid pro quo" basis provided for under Spanish Tariff Law. This denunciation, giving one year's notice in accordance with Article 3 of the aforesaid Agreement of 1906, is, I believe, highly advantageous to American business interests, as it evidently gives them during that year the benefit, under the "most-favored-nation" clause of the Agreement of 1906, of the advantages already gained by the other principal trading nations through treaty concessions. During my recent visit to the United States, I discussed at length the background of the present situation with Mr. William R. Castle, Jr., Chief of the Division of Western European Affairs, who should be in a position to acquaint you with my views on any phase of the matter which you might care to consider in reaching a decision with regard to entering into new treaty negotiations with the Spanish Government. In connection with the significance to be attached to the fact that the Minister of State recognizes the 1906 Agreement as being in full force and effect, I have the honor to call the Department's attention to its confidential instruction No. 88 of August 10, 1922.6 I have [etc.] Not printed. CYRUS E. WOODS |