Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1903

Mr. Hay to Baron von Sternberg.

Department of State,
Washington, April 6, 1903.

My Dear Mr. Minister: I have received the note of the 4th instant which Mr. Bussche of your embassy addressed to the Department, forwarding a copy of the text of the protocol, which the German, British, and Italian Governments have agreed to submit to the Government of Venezuela for signature, relating to the reference to the international court of arbitration at The Hague of the question of preferential treatment in the payment of claims owing by Venezuela to the Governments named or to their subjects.^b

I am, etc.,

John Hay.

1. Continuation of this correspondence and negotiations at The Hague will appear in the Volume of Foreign Relations for 1904.