File No. 611.627/394.
The Acting Secretary of State to the German Ambassador.
Washington, April 14, 1911.
Excellency: I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your excellency’s note of April 8, etc.
The committee on behalf of the American buyers holding contracts with the Aschersleben and Sollstedt mines, visited the department to-day and stated that if the conference was held at Brussels it would be impossible for all the various interests represented by this committee to be present at such conference, owing to the fact that this is the busy period of the year in their business. In view of this fact the committee requests that your excellency communicate at once, by cable, with the Imperial Government, and again set forth the desire of the committee that the conference be held in New York City, or, if necessary that a neutral point be selected, that Montreal be agreed to as the place of conference.
The committee also desires that your excellency make inquiry, by cable, as to whether the German Potash Syndicate will meet with them in conference, in the event that the representatives of the Aschersleben and Sollstedt mines are not parties to such conference.
I am transmitting the foregoing requests in the hope that your excellency will be able to arrange the details of the proposed conference in accordance thereto, realizing that in the interest of all concerned an early agreement should be reached both as to place and date of conference.
Accept, etc.,