Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1900

The President to the German Emperor.

[Telegram.]

Executive Mansion, August 12, 1900.

I am gratified to receive Your Majesty’s message of goodwill in relation to the selection of Count Waldersee, and, like you, I see in our common duty an additional recognition of the kindly ties and mutual interests that exist between this country and Germany.

William McKinley.