UNITED STATES POLICY REGARDING QUESTIONS PER-
  TAINING TO THE DELIMITATION OF THE TERRITORIAL
  SEA, AND RELATED. MATTERS

  I. DELIMITATION OF INLAND WATERS AND THE MARGINAL SEA
700.022/3-750: Circular airgram
     The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Missions 1

RESTRICTED                WASHINGTON, March 7, 1950-8:05 a. m.
Delimitation of Inland IVaters and the Marginal Sea
  Department requests information regarding relevant portions of
all laws, decrees, regulations, treaties, and other authoritative gov-
ernment pronouncements of country to which you are accredited, con-
cerning the delimitation and measurement of its inland waters and its
marginal sea. Available copies of such documents should be forwarded
to the Department, in triplicate, if possible.
  In the trial brief of the State of California submitted during the
October term of 1948 of the Supreme Court of the United States, in
the petition of the Plaintiff for the Entry of a Supplemental Decree
in the case of United States v California (Opinion, 332 United States
19; Order and Decree, 332 United States 804), it was stated, at pages
37 and 38, that:
  "Many nations specifically define their inland waters by national
law as extending to their outermost islands, rocks and reefs regard-
less of distances from the mainland, and hence establish the base line
of the marginal belt on the seaward side of such islands, rocks and
reefs. Among such nations are Cuba, Denmark (including Green-
land), Finland, New Caledonia (by French decree), Germany, Great
Britain, Iceland,- The Netherlands, Norway, Russia, and Sweden.
  "Some nations declare very large bays, much larger than San Pedro,
Santa Monica or Monterey Bays, to be inland waters. Among them are
the Argentine Republic, Canada, Chile, Egypt, France, Guatemala,
Norway, Sweden, Ecuador, Colombia, Italy, Portugal, Russia, and
Spain.
  "Some nations place a specific limit of ten miles or less on width
of bays which are inland waters. Among these are Brazil, Denmark,
France (ten-mile limitation exists in certain fisheries treaties), Ger-
  Sent to Athens, Bangkok, Caracas, Ciudad Trujillo, Manila, Port-au-Prince,
Pretoria (Transvaal), Rangoon, Tel Aviv, Wellington, and Damascus.
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