No. 565.
Sir L. S.
Sackville West to Mr. Bayard.
Washington, March 22, 1888
(Received March 23.)
Sir: With reference to your note of the 19th instant, suggesting that each Government should beat liberty to publish the joint protocols of the Samoan conference, I have the honor to inform you that Her Majesty’s Government are of opinion that, pending the re-assembling of the conference, its proceedings should be considered confidential, and that the publication of them at present might prejudice the satisfactory solution of the question.
I have, etc.,
L. S.
Sackville-West.