File No. 774/679.
American Legation,
The
Hague, November 23,
1909.
A copy and translation of the minister’s note are herewith inclosed.
[Inclosure.—Translation.]
The Minister for Foreign
Affairs to Chargé White.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
The Hague, November 22,
1909.
Mr. Chargé d’Affaires: In reply to Mr.
Beaupré’s note of September 22 last, No. 203, I have the honor to
advise you that the Government of the Queen, rallying to (accepting)
your Government’s proposition to bring together a second
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international conference
for the suppression of the abuse of num, takes the liberty at the
same time to propose The Hague as the place of meeting of the
conference.
In case your Government should not have any objection to this
proposition, I should esteem it of great value to know which
Governments have adhered in principle to the meeting of the second
conference, in order that the Government of the Queen may make the
necessary preparations for issuing the invitations. Further, I
should be greatly pleased to learn whether the adhering Governments
have already made known their views in regard to the date of the
meeting.
The Government of the Queen agrees as well to the provisional program
indicated on pages 6 and 7 of the instructions that accompanied the
note above mentioned, at the same time observing that for the
Netherlands Indies, where the culture of the poppy does not exist
and where opium régie is or will be introduced, the question is in
the first place to arrive at an international entente in regard to
the measures for combatting the smuggling of opium.
Reserving to myself the right to communicate to you in their time and
place the names of the delegates which the Government of the Queen
proposes to designate to take part in the conference, I embrace this
opportunity, etc.,
