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REC? AMERICAN EMBASSY
LONDON,
October 4th, 1910.
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Sir:-
I duly communicated to my Government the substance
of your Note of September 17th last with regard to the
proposed International Opium Conference, and I have now
the honour to inform you that my Government is highly
gratified at the acceptance by the British Government
of the proposal of the United States for an Interna-
tional Opium Conference to be held at The Hague.
To avoid unnecessary delay in the meeting of the
Conference the Netherlands Government will immediately
be informed of the British Government's proposal that
before the meeting of the Conference there shall have
first been made the necessary preliminary studies as to
the trade conditions and manufacture of morphine and
cocaine in the interested countries, and their pre-
paredness to impose severe restrictions on such manu-
facture and trade.
Edward Grey, Bart.,
M.P.,
&c.,
&C.,
&C.
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