Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1907, (In two parts), Part I

File No. 774/142.

Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.

American Embassy,
London,November 30, 1907.

No. 493.]

Sir: With reference to your instruction No. 534, of October 14, 1907 (File No. 774), I have the honor to inform you that I am in receipt of a note from the foreign office, under date of the 27th instant, in which Sir Edward Grey states that His Majesty’s Government have learned with pleasure that the governments concerned, on accepting the proposal for an international conference to investigate the opium trade, in principle have expressed a preference for a joint commission, and that His Majesty’s Government would be glad to receive more precise information as to the proposed procedure of the commission. The time and place of meeting they prefer to leave to the initiative of our Government as the originators of the proposal.

I have, etc.,

Whitelaw Reid.