Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

Ambassador Reid to the Secretary of State.

American Embassy,
London, April 16, 1908.

No. 582.]

Sir: With reference to Mr. Carter’s No. 567 of the 31st ultimo, relating to the annexation of the Kongo by Belgium, which inclosed a copy of a dispatch on that subject from Sir Edward Grey to the British minister at Brussels, in which reference was made to a memorandum which should have accompanied the dispatch, I now have the honor to inclose¹ herewith a copy of the memorandum in question, which I have received to-day from the foreign office.

I have, etc.,

Whitelaw Reid.

1. See Africa No. 3, printed in S. Doc. No. 147, 61st Cong., 1st sess., entitled “Affairs in the Kongo.”