Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 20437/85.

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Berlin, May 12, 1910.

Have had conference with the secretary of state for foreign affairs, who assures me that the American potash contracts will in no respect be invalidate or impaired by the new law, which as finally modified puts it in the hands of the Bundesrat to fix prices so that the existing contracts will not be affected.

Hill.