HC Deb 03 August 1897 vol 52 cc228-9
* SIR CHARLES DILKE

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether it is possible to at once lay before Parliament, or to publish in the Gazette, the Dispatch of the Government of the United States of America to their Ambassador in London, dated 10th May, and any reply which may have been made to it?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Mr. G. CURZON,) Lancashire, Southport

Papers are now being prepared, and will, I hope, before long be available, which will include the Dispatch of the American Government and the reply which has been made to it. I do not think, however, that it would be desirable to publish these two documents alone, since they will require to be read in connection with the previous correspondence to which they refer.

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