FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE, AND CONSULAR RIGHTS Agreement signed at Vienna January 20, 1931, supplementing treaty of June 19, 1928 Senate advice and consent to ratification February 20, 1931 Ratified by Austria March 28, 1931 Ratified by the President of the United States April 29, 1931 Entered into force May 27, 1931 Proclaimed by the President of the United States May 28, 1931 47 Stat. 1899; Treaty Series 839 SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT TO THE TREATY OF FRIENDSHIP, COMMERCE AND CONSULAR RIGHTS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND THE REPpublic of AUSTRIA, SIGNED ON JUNE 19, 1928 The United States of America and the Republic of Austria, by the undersigned Mr. Gilchrist Baker Stockton, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States of America at Vienna, and Dr. Johann Schober, Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Austria, their duly empowered plenipotentiaries, agree, as follows: Notwithstanding the provisions of the first paragraph of Article XXIV of the Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Consular Rights, between the United States of America and the Republic of Austria, signed June 19, 1928,1 to the effect that the said Treaty shall remain in force for the term of six years from the date of the exchange of ratifications, it is agreed that the said Treaty may be terminated on February 11, 1935, or on any date thereafter, by notice given by either high contracting party to the other party one year before the date on which it is desired that such termination shall become effective. DONE in duplicate, in the English and German languages, at Vienna, this 20th day of January One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirtyone. 1 TS 838, ante, p. 351. G. B. STOCKTON [SEAL] [SEAL] NARCOTIC DRUGS Exchange of notes at Vienna April 10 and July 24, 1931 Entered into force July 24, 1931 Department of State files The American Minister to the Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs No. 108 EXCELLENCY: VIENNA, April 10, 1931 I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that I have been instructed by my Government to invite the attention of the Austrian Government that in an endeavor to bring about stricter control of the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs, the Treasury Department of the United States has requested an effort be made to establish closer cooperation between the appropriate administrative officials of the United States and certain foreign countries. To aid in the accomplishment of this purpose, it would be appreciated if arrangements could be made with the Austrian Government for: 1. The direct exchange between the United States Treasury Department and the corresponding office in Austria of information and evidence with reference to persons engaged in the illicit traffic. This would include such information as photographs, criminal records, finger prints, Bertillon measurements, description 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 movement of narcotic drugs, or of those involved in smuggling drugs, if such movements might concern the other country. It will be readily realized that to have any value such information must reach its destination directly and speedily. 3. Mutual cooperation in detective and investigating work. The officer of the Treasury Department who would have charge, on behalf of the United States Government, of the cooperation in the suppression of the illicit traffic in narcotics is the Commissioner of Narcotics, whose mail address is Treasury Department, Washington, D.C., and whose telegraphic address is "Narcotics", Washington, D.C. The proposed informal arrangement has already been accepted by the governments of twenty countries. If the proposed arrangement meets with the approval of Your Excellency's Government, I am instructed to transmit to the Department of State the signed original of the Austrian note of acceptance. Accordingly it is requested that such note be accompanied by a signed duplicate for the files of the Legation. I am furthermore instructed to ascertain whether the Austrian Government, if it accepts, would have any objection to the publication by the United States Government of such note. As of interest in this connection, there is attached a copy of the Department of State's BULLETIN OF TREATY INFORMATION No. 5, of July 31, 1929,1 containing the texts of the arrangements entered into between the United States and other Governments, except the Cuban, Egyptian, and Mexican Governments, with whom arrangements were concluded subsequent to the issuance of this BULLETIN. It should also be added that final details have been completed in respect of the agreement with Yugoslavia, the preliminary correspondence concerning which appears in the enclosed BULLETIN OF TREATY INFORMATION. In view of the Department of State's instruction that certain of the information desired of the Federal Chancellery, Department for Foreign Affairs, be telegraphed to Washington, it would be very much appreciated if I might receive a reply from Your Excellency at as early a date as possible. I take this occasion to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my highest consideration. His Excellency Dr. JOHANN SCHOBER, Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs. G. B. STOCKTON The Vice Chancellor and Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs [TRANSLATION] THE VICE CHANCELLOR AND FEDERAL MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS No. 177.459-14 a EXCELLENCY: VIENNA, July 24, 1931 With reference to the Legation's note No. 108 of April 10, 1931, I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that the Austrian authorities charged 1 Not printed here. with the prevention of the traffic in narcotic drugs, consider a direct exchange of pertinent information a very important means by which the struggle against the illicit trading in such drugs may be rendered more effective, and are prepared to enter into a direct exchange of information in accordance with the proposals contained in the above mentioned note. The competent department with which to communicate for such an exchange of information is the Police Direction in Vienna, which functions as the "Zentralevidenzstelle" (central record department) in matters pertaining to the control of the illicit traffic in narcotic drugs (narcotic drug department). Its address is: Polizeidirektion, Rauschgiftstelle, Vienna, IX., Rossauerlände 7 (Police Direction, Narcotic Drug Department); the telegraphic address is: Vienna, Polizeidirektion. I have the honor further to inform Your Excellency that the Austrian Government has no objection to the publication of the documents which have been exchanged in regard to the aforementioned matter. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to Your Excellency the assurance of my high consideration. His Excellency Mr. GILCHRIST BAKER STOCKTON, Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America, Vienna. SCHOBER DEBT FUNDING Agreement signed at Washington September 14, 1932, modifying agree ment of May 8, 1930 Operative from July 1, 1931 Treasury Department print AGREEMENT, Made the 14th day of September, 1932, at the City of Washington, District of Columbia, between the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OF THE Republic of AuSTRIA, hereinafter called AUSTRIA, party of the first part, and the GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, hereinafter called the UNITED STATES, party of the second part WHEREAS, under the terms of the debt funding agreement between Austria and the United States, dated May 8, 1930,1 there was payable by Austria to the United States during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1931 and ended June 30, 1932, in respect of the bonded indebtedness of Austria to the United States, the principal amount of $287,556; and WHEREAS, a Joint Resolution of the Congress of the United States, approved December 23, 1931,2 authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, with the approval of the President, to make on behalf of the United States an agreement with Austria on the terms hereinafter set forth, to postpone the payment of the amount payable by Austria to the United States during such year in respect of its bonded indebtedness to the United States; Now, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants herein contained, it is agreed as follows: 1. Payment of the amount of $287,556, payable by Austria to the United States during the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1931 and ended June 30, 1932, in respect of the bonded indebtedness of Austria to the United States, according to the terms of the agreement of May 8, 1930, above mentioned, is hereby postponed so that such amount, together with interest thereon at the rate of 4 per centum per annum from July 1, 1933, shall be paid by Austria to the United States in ten equal annuities of $34,767.23 each, payable in equal annual installments on January 1 of each year beginning January 1, 1934 and concluding January 1, 1943. The bond numbered 4 dated Janu 1 Ante, p. 365. 947 Stat. 3. |