esoterica

[redbird]

Then we got to wondering whether the United States has an extradition treaty with the Vatican [1]. In wandering through the State Department's PDFs, I have found probably-irrelevant things like an agreement on military cooperation between the US and Iran, signed in 1950, and weirdly still relevant ones. The entry for "Consuls" under "India" reads

Convention to regulate commerce (article IV) between the United States and the United Kingdom. Signed at London July 3, 1815; effective July 3, 1815.

We didn't have to negotiate commerce with India in 1947; we took care of it when we settled the War of 1812.

[1] Apparently not.