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1 Four-Power Treaty and Supplementary Agreement: Message from the President of the United States 1 (1922)

handle is hein.hoil/frpwrtya0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 67T'H CONGRESS, SENATE. f DoCUMENT 2d Session. f No. 130. THE FOUR-POWER TREATY AND SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT. MESSAGE +' FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, TRANSMiTTING A RESPONSE TO SENATE RESOLUTION ASKING FOR INFORMATION RELATING TO THE FOUR-POWER TREATY AND SUPPLEMENTARY AGREEMENT. FEBRUARY 20, 1922.-Read; referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations, and ordered to be printed. To the SENATE: Responsive to Senate resolution No. 237, asking for records, minutes, arguments, debates, conversations, etc., relating to the so- called four-power treaty, I have to advise that it is impossible to comply with the Senate's request. Many of the things asked for in the resolution it is literally impossible to furnish, because there were many conversations and discussions quite outside the conference, yet vital to its success. Naturally these are without record. I do not believe it to be compatible with public interest or con- sistent with the amenities of international negotiation to attempt to reveal informal and confidential conversations or discussions, of which no record was kept, or to submit tentative suggestions or informal proposals, without which the arrival at desirable international understandings would be rendered unlikely if not impossible. While I am unable to transmit the information requested, I do, however, take this opportunity to say most emphatically that there were no concealed understandings, and no secret exchanges of notes, and there are no commitments whatever except as appear in the four-power treaty itself and the supplementary agreement, which are now in the hands of the Senate. Respectfully, WARREN G. HARDING. THE WHITE HOUsE, February 20, 1922. 0