500.C114/351
The Netherland Minister (De Graeff) to the Secretary of State
Sir: With reference to your note of today I have the honor to state that the Royal Government has instructed me to inform you that in the event of the adhesion by the United States to the Protocol of December 16, 1920 under which the Permanent Court of International Justice has been created at The Hague, the Government of the Netherlands will be willing to consider a modification of the Convention of Arbitration between the Government of the Netherlands and the United States, which we have renewed today, or to make a separate agreement, providing for the reference of disputes mentioned in the Convention to the Permanent Court of International Justice.
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