1898 Treaties - Treaty of Paris, Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory, Nishi-Rosen Agreement (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Treaty of Paris of 1898 was signed on December 10, 1898, and ended the Spanish-American War. Article V of a peace protocol entered into between United States and Spain on August 12, 1898 read as follows: The composition of the American commission was somewhat unusual in that three of its members were Senators (meaning, as many newspapers pointed out, that at a later date they would vote on the ratification of their own negotiations). The American delegation members were: On September 16, U.S. President McKinley issued secret written instructions to his emissaries: The Spanish commission included the Spanish diplomats Eugenio Montero Ros, Buenaventura de Abarzuza, Jos de Garnica, Wenceslao Ramrez de Villa-Urrutia, Rafael Cerero, as well as a French diplomat, Jules Cambon. The American delegation, headed by former Secretary of State William R. Day, Day, who had vacated his position as United States Secretary of State in order to head the commission, arrived in Paris on September 26, 1898. The negotiations were conducted in a suite of rooms at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. At the first session on October 1, the Spanish demanded that before the talks get underway the city of Manila, which had been captured by the Americans a few hours after the signing of the peace protocol in Washington, be returned to Spanish authority. The Americans refused to consider this and for the moment it was pursued no further. For almost a month, negotiations revolved around Cuba, which Spain was more than willing to cede to the U.S., along with the Cuban national debt of four hundred million dollars. The Teller Amendment to the U.S. Declaration of War with Spain, however, made it impossible for the U.S. to accept the island, much less its f... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=191930