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Memorandum of Conversation, by the Assistant Chief of the Division of Near Eastern Affairs (Alling)
Mr. Rady, the Egyptian Chargé d’Affaires ad interim, called today and handed me the attached aide-mémoire4 requesting the support of the United States Government toward abolishing the International Quarantine Board (Sanitary Maritime Quarantine Board). He pointed out that this question was to come up at a conference to which we had been or would be invited by the French Government for the purpose of revising the 1926 Convention relating to Quarantine matters. I told Mr. Rady that I did not know whether such an invitation had in fact been received or whether we were participating in the proposed conference but that I would look the matter up and let him know. He asked if we would be good enough to give him a written reply to the aide-mémoire and accompanying document,5 which listed the proposals which the Egyptian Government had in mind in connection with the proposed abolition of the Quarantine Board at Alexandria.