HEARING FORD
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CLAIMS OF AMERICAN NATIONALS

AGAINST MEXICO

COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS

TOM CONNALLY, Texas, Chairman WALTER F. GEORGE, Georgia

HIRAM W. JOHNSON, California ROBERT F. WAGNER, New York

ARTHUR CAPPER, Kansas ELBERT D. THOMAS, Utah

ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE, JR., Wisconsin FREDERICK VAN NUYS, Indiana

ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG, Michigan JAMES E. MURRAY, Montana

WALLACE H. WHITE, JR., Maine
CLAUDE PEPPER, Florida

HENRIK SHIPSTEAD, Minnesota
THEODORE FRANCIS GREEN, Rhode Island GERALD P. NYE, North Dakota
ALBEN W. BARKLEY, Kentucky
ROBERT R. REYNOLDS, North Carolina
JOSEPH F. GUFFEY, Pennsylvania
GUY M. GILLETTE, Iowa
BENNETT CHAMP CLARK, Missouri
CARTER GLASS, Virginia
JOSH LEE, Oklahoma
JAMES M. TUNNELL, Delaware

ROLAND YOUNG, Clerk

SUBCOMMITTEE ON S. 2528

ELBERT D. THOMAS, Chairman

WALLACE H. WHITE, JR.

FREDERICK VAN NUYS

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CONTENTS

Statement of

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Bethel, Genl. W. A., Attorney, Chevy Chase, Md..

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Bursley, Herbert S., Assistant Chief, Bureau of American Republics,

Department of State..

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Dunn, William Hugh, Accountant, Washington, D. C.

100

English, Benedict M., Assistant to the Legal Adviser, Department of

State

5, 139

Garrity, Harry J., Attorney, Washington, D. C.

132

Kinnear, John B., Attorney, Washington, D. C.

99, 127, 139

McDonald, John J., Attorney, Bethesda, Md.

135

Nielsen, Fred K., Attorney, former member of General Claims Com-

mission and Special Claims Commission-

18, 129

O'Connell, Joseph J., Jr., Assistant General Counsel, Treasury Depart-

ment-

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Oliver, Howard T., Claimant, New York City

127
Plowman, T. S., Attorney, Washington, D. C.

117
Walton, Daniel Day, Attorney, New York City

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Woolsey, Lester H., Attorney, Washington, D. C.

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EXHIBITS

Exhibit A: American Mexican Claims Bureau v. Morgenthau et al.-

Exhibit B: Bethel, Gen. Walter A., memorandum and draft of bill..

Exhibit C: Conventions, agreements, etc.:

Special claims:

Convention signed September 10, 1923.

Convention signed August 17, 1929-

Convention signed April 24, 1934..

Act approved April 10, 1935.-

Joint resolution approved August 25, 1937-.

General claims:

Convention signed September 8, 1923.

Convention signed August 16, 1927-

Convention signed September 2, 1929-

Convention signed June 18, 1932.

Protocol signed April 24, 1934...

Agrarian claims: Agreement effected by exchange of notes signed Nov-

ember 9 and 12, 1938.---

Agrarian claims and general claims: Convention signed November 19,

1941.--.

Exhibit D: Dunn, William H., memoranda (2) and letter.

Exhibit E: English, Benedict' M., compilation of claims of Americans

against Mexico -

Exhibit F: Fitzhugh, 0. M., statement...

Exhibit G: Gates, R. Woodland, letters (2)

Exhibit H: Kinnear, J. B., letter, statements (2)

Exhibit I: Letters—Bergh, Louis O., Curry, Grant, Graves, Kizer &

Graves, Hettman, Walter E., Keppler, Tobias A., McCaughan, A. C.,

MacCoy, W. Logan, Romney and Nelson, Russell, Ed S., Udy, Stanley

H., Weld, Bert I., West, T. M..

Exhibit J: Message of President and Report of Secretary of State, May 14,

1942, House Document 722_

Exhibit K: McDonald, John J., memoranda (2), telegram.

Exhibit L: Nielsen, Fred K., proposed bill, memorandum.

Exhibit M: Oliver, Howard T., memorandum..

Exhibit N: Woolsey, Lester H., proposed amendments, memorandum,

history of Mexican claims.

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