'File 35/86 II A 45 Muscat - Commercial Treaty of 1891 and revision of treaty 1922' [‎232v] (472/572)

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Lindsay was instructed to inform the United States Government
that this suggestion was not made on account of any objection
to the past conduct of any of their consuls, but was merely
designed to remove the special exemption, which was super
fluous under the present settled administration.
4» x.i.r. Lindsay made representations to the United
States Government in this sense, ana in a note of March 3rd
1920, was informed by the State Department in reply that
that department would carefully consider any proposals
which His Majesty^ Government might desire to submit.
5. However, the projected United States loan never
materialised, and no further progress was made at the time
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with the above-mentioned proposals of His Lajesty's Government
in regard to the United States-i-uscat Treaty..
6. In 1925 a United States company, the Firestone
Rubber Corporation, proposed to the Liberian Government to
redeem Liberia's outstanding indebtedness and make a further
loan to the Government in return for concessions for growing
rubber. One of the conditions of this loan was that a
nominee of the United States should be placed in sole control
of Liberian Customs. When these proposals became Known
to His Lajesty's Government, Mr. Chilton was instructed to
inform the United States Government that so long as His
Majesty's Government refrained from exercising their right
of appointing a British Receiver, they naturally expected
that the stipulations made to the United States Ambassador
in Lord Curzon's note of the 13th September 1919, would be
observed. Among these stipulations had been, of course,
although iir. Chilton in his note to the United States
Government of October 7th, 1925, aid not specifically refer
to the point, the successful conclusion of the negotiations
in regard to the Zanzibar treaty which were pending in
Washington