711.5612Anti-War/9
The Netherlands Chargé (Van Hoorn) to the Acting Secretary of State
Sir: In answer to the note of Mr. Norweb addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs at The Hague and extending to Her Majesty’s Government an invitation to become a signatory to the multilateral treaty for the renunciation of war, I am instructed by my Government and have the honour to inform you that the Government of the Queen has followed with the greatest interest and sympathy the progress of the negotiations which have been brilliantly concluded with the signing on August 27 of the treaty to renounce war as an instrument of national policy.
My Government, on whose territory the Peace Conferences of 1899 and 1907 have had place and whose policy has always been directed towards the promotion of world peace, greets the contents of said treaty as a real progress of mankind, and has immediately taken the necessary measures prescribed by the constitution in order to be able to adhere to the same.
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