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she pleases againe Powers with whom she is not bound by
Treaty.
4.
A provision for the intercomunication of
information and documents appears to be a useful com-
plement to the provisions of the Convention.
5. The word "ratification" has been affed
in order to provide for the contingency that would arise
if all the Powers signed the Convention but sche
abstained from retifying it.
The above-mentioner changes, together with others
of a verbal and mil.or character, appear to Sir E. Grev
to constitute an improvement on the earlier drafts of
the Convention which, as it now stands, promises to
inaugurate important and beneficial reforms while safe-
guarding adequately special British interests.
Sir E.
Grey does not, therefore propose to interfere with the
discretion of the British Delegates in signing it.
The "Protocole de Clôture", also enclosed in
despatch No.12, does not appear to Sir E. Grey to con-
tain any provisions to which exception should be taken
but it will be observed that, in its present form, it contains
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