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                             SIAM
PROPOSED REVISION OF THE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP AND COM-
MERCE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND SIAM, SIGNED DECEM-
BER 16, 19201
711.922/70
The Siame8e Ministry for Foreign Affairs to the American Legation
                             in Siarn 2
                          MEMORANDUM
Negotiation for treaty revision with U. S. A.
  1. In a Memorandum dated October 23rd, 1933,8 His Majesty's
Government put forward proposals4 for a revision of the present
Treaty on the following points:
  I. Article 1, paragraph 4: Military exactions or contributions.-
It is desired to have these words struck out, so that either Contracting
Party may have the right to requisition the property of the nationals
of the other Party in its territory in time of war.
  II. Article 3: Monopoly. -It is desired to modify this Article
so that either Contracting Party should have the right to set up
monopolies in its territory.
  III. Article 7: Customs duties.-It is desired to modify the Article
so that the most favoured nation treatment in regard to customs
duties should be reciprocal and not unilateral as it now is.
  IV. Article 13, paragraph 3: Consular privileges.-It is desired
to have the condition of reciprocity added to the most favoured nation
treatment that is now provided for.
  The text of the Memorandum is attached herewith. (Annex 1.)5
  2. On February 1st, 1934, Mr. Stevens6 who was entrusted with
the negotiation with the Department of State, transmitted the counter-
proposals of the Department of State, the text of which is to be
found in Annex 2.5
1 Continued from Foreign Relations, 1935, vol. in, pp. 1105-1111. For text
of
treaty, see ibid., 1921, vol. II, p. 867.
'Handed to Assistant Secretary of State Sayre by the American Minister
to Siam, temporarily in Washington, July 2.
'Original memorandum not received by the Department, but see telegram
No. 17, November 18, 1933, 1 p. m., to the Minister in Siam, Foreign Relations,
1933, vol. in, p. 770.
'Proposals communicated to the Department by the Siamese Minister, October
16,1933, ibid., p. 767.
'Not printed.
"Raymond B. Stevens, American adviser on foreign relations to the Siamese
Government.
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