512.4B3/17
The Secretary of State to the Egyptian Minister (Hassan Bey)
The Secretary of State presents his compliments to the Honorable the Minister of Egypt and has the honor to refer again to his Legation’s aide-mémoire of September 14, 1938, with enclosure, expressing the desire of the Egyptian Government for the United States to participate in a sanitary conference to convene at Paris on October 28, 1938 for the purpose of considering the transference to the Egyptian Government of the duties assumed by the Sanitary, Maritime and Quarantine Board of Egypt.
The Government of the United States received an invitation from the French Government6 to participate in the conference and Mr. Hull [Page 962] takes pleasure in informing Hassan Bey that the invitation has been accepted and that Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming, Retired, United States Public Health Service, Washington, D. C. has been appointed delegate on the part of the United States to the conference. Dr. Cumming is the American representative at the International Office of Public Health.
- Note dated September 1, from the French Chargé not printed.↩