819.52/150
The Acting Secretary of State to the Minister in Panama ( Price )
Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch Number 2852 dated December 14, 19201 and containing the report of your conference with the Acting Secretary of Foreign Affairs,2 in the course of which he informed you that the Panaman Government intended to consider the matter of negotiating a new Treaty with our Government promptly after the appointment by the President of Panama of a Minister Plenipotentiary to Washington.
In view of the importance of this subject, the Department desires that you report minutely any information you may acquire relative to the modifications in the agreements now in force which the Panaman Government contemplates submitting at the time negotiations for a new Treaty may be entered into.
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