Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, Transmitted to Congress, With the Annual Message of the President, December 3, 1888, Part I

No. 492.
Baron von Zedtwitz to Mr. Bayard.

[Translation.]

Imperial German Legation,
Washington, March 24, 1888. (Received March 24.)

Mr. Secretary of State: In reply to your polite note of the 19th instant, suggesting that each of the three treaty powers be at liberty to publish the memoranda of the proceedings of the Samoa conference held last summer at the Department of State in this city, I have the honor most respectfully to inform you that the Imperial Government is unable to adopt said suggestion. It is rather of the opinion that those protocols, in view of the interruption and hitherto fruitless course of the conferences, which have consequently yielded no definite result, are not suited for publication.

Accept, etc.,

v. Zedtwitz