Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 12655/315.

The Secretary of State to the British Ambassador.

Department of State,
Washington, March 31, 1909.

No. 577.]

Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note No. 76, of the 25th instant, announcing that, on the 26th ultimo, the International Naval Conference at London closed its proceedings being able to arrive at a unanimous conclusion on most of the subjects of its program, and that it has elaborated a declaration dealing comprehensively with a large number of the most important questions of international law in the domain of naval warfare.

The department notes, with great pleasure, the appreciation expressed by His Majesty’s Government with reference to the attitude maintained by the United States toward the conference.

I have, etc.,

P. C. Knox.