The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-08-26
Text Of Treaty Of U. S. with Germany

imperial German government or its
agents, or the imperial and royal
Austro-Hungarlan government, or its
agents, since July 81, 1914, loss, dam
age, or injury to their persons or
property, directly or indirectly, wheth-
er through the ownership of shares of
stock in German, Austro-Hungarian
American, or other corporations, or in
consequence of hostile or of any oper-
ations of war. or otherwise, and also
shall have granted to persons owing
permanent allegiance to the United
States of America most-favored-natlon
treatment whether the same be nation
/ al or otherwise, in all matters affecting
residence, business, profession, trade,
navigation, commerce and industrial
property rights, and until the imperial
| German government and the imperial
and royal Austro-Hungarian govern
| ment, or their successor or successors,
shall have respectively confirmed to
the United States of America all fines,
| forfeitures, penalties, and seizures i'm
posed or made by the United States of
America during the war, whether in
respect to the property of the imper-
ial German government or German
nationals or the imperial and royal
IAustro-Hungarian government or Aus
tro-Hungarian nationals, and shall
have waived any and all pecuniary
claims against the United States OF
America"
Purpose Of Treaty.
Being DESTROYS of restoring the
friendly relations existing between
the two nations prior to the outbreak
of the war;
Have for that purpose appointed
their plenipotentiaries;
The president of the United States
of America, Ellis Loring Dresel. COM
missioner of the United States OF
} America to Germany, and
The president of the German EN-.
, pire. DR.. Friedrich Rosen, minister for
: foreign affairs,
, full powers, found to be in good and
due form, have agreed as follows:
ART. I.
Germany undertakes to accord t
: the United States and the Unitet
States shall have and enjoy all the
rights, privileges, indemnities, repara
: tons or advantages specified in the
: aforesaid joint resolution of the con
! SICoo Vi inc odlICd oIdICo VI July
r 1921, including all the rights and ad
2 vantages stipulated for the benefit G
5 the United States in the treaty of Yer
2 sailles, which he United States shat
f fully enjoy, notwithstanding the fac
/ that such treaty has not been ratified
: by the United States.
:, ART. II
: with a view to defining more par
: ticularly the obligations of German.
4 under the foregoing article with re
4 spect to certain provisions in tn,
e treaty of Versailles, it is understoo,
r and agreed between the high contrac,
Y ing parties:
y Il. That the rights and advantage
!, stipulated in that treaty for the bene
y fit of the United States, which it i
e intended the United States shall hav
+ and enjoy, are those defined in Sec
i l of parts four and parts five, sis
y eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, foul
T, teen and fifteen. The United State
n in availing itself of the rights an
Il advantages stipulated in the prov
r sions' of that treaty mentioned in thi
= paragraph will do so in a manner COZ
r sistent with the rights accorded
It Germany under such provisions.
IL "2. That the United States shall nc
o be bound by the provisions Of part on
e of that treaty. nor by any provision
O of that treaty including those mel
e toned on paragraph (one) Of this art