Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 6, 1910

File No. 511. 4A1/919.

The Secretary of State to the Netherlands Minister.

Department of State,
Washington, November 26, 1910.

No. 100.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 16th instant, in which, by direction of the Government of the Netherlands, you propose that the date of May 30, 1911, be set for the meeting of the International Conference relative to the opium trade, and state that that Government regrets that owing to the preparatory measures for the conference it is impossible to propose to call it at an earlier date.

I beg to inclose for your information a copy of the instruction¹ sent to the American Legation at The Hague, in acknowledgment of a note transmitted to the American chargé d’affaires by Mr. van Swinderen, in which he advised this Government that the Netherlands Government proposed Wednesday, the 30th of May, 1911, as the date for the meeting of the conference.

You will see by this instruction that this Government has expressed its high gratification that the date for the assembling of the conference had been determined upon, and that the date proposed is convenient to the United States.

Accept, etc.,

P. C. Knox.

1. No. 171, November 19, supra.