Mr. Jackson to Mr.
Hay.
Embassy
of the United States,
Berlin, March 12,
1902.
No. 1886.]
Sir: I have the honor to append hereto a
clipping from last night’s issue of the North German Gazette, containing
a semiofficial statement with regard to the visit of Prince Henry of
Prussia to the United States, as well as a translation of the article in
question. Last night a telegram (for Ambassador White) was received from
Prince Henry, reading as follows:
Though glad to be homeward bound, can not tell you how thankful I am for
reception met with in your country.
Yesterday, in conversation at the foreign office, Baron Richthofen spoke
most cordially of the welcome which had been extended to Prince Henry,
and of the satisfaction felt that everything had passed off so
smoothly.
* * * The German papers have printed long telegrams during the whole
course of the visit and longer mail reports are now beginning to appear.
Comment has generally been favorable and much satisfaction is expressed
at the reception given to a German prince. * * *
I think that one of the results of the visit will be that Americans
traveling or doing business throughout Germany will receive more
friendly treatment generally, and that our fellow-citizens of German
origin will be less liable to be molested while sojourning at their
former homes.
I have, etc.,
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[Inclosure.]
The semiofficial North-German Gazette says:
“His Royal Highness Prince Henry of Prussia leaves to-day the
hospitable shores of the United States of America and enters
upon his homeward journey on board the steamship Deutschland. His voyage to New York
to take part in the launch of His Imperial Majesty’s yacht
Meteor, his visit to the Federal
capital, Washington, and to many other places of importance
in American history and civilization, as was fully
understood on either side without the necessity of
admonition from any third party, had no political object in
view. In the consolidation of the traditional friendly
feeling between two great nations, the future of which is
full of hope and which are full of energy, in the renewal of
ancient confidence, in the testimony borne to the lively
appreciation which the genius of the Americans for valuable
work in the service of civilization finds precisely in that
European country which has supplied the great Republic with
so many valiant citizens—in all this we recognize the
significance of Prince Henry’s mission. The successful
fulfillment of this mission enables both the German and the
American nations to look back with unalloyed satisfaction
upon these days of festival, which now belong to
history.
“For this achievement in the service of the peace of nations
our thanks are due to His Majesty the Emporer, who caused
the journey to be undertaken, and to His Royal Highness
Prince Henry, who has accomplished it with such happy
success. In no less degree have we to thank the President,
the Government, and the people of the United States for the
hospitable, chivalrous, and splendid reception which they
have accorded to the brother of the German Emperor. And side
by side with the official honors which have been so lavishly
paid to the representative of our ruler, our land, and our
people, we remember with with full measure of gratitude the
unnumbered thousands of American men and women who have
everywhere bidden a joyous and unfeigned welcome to the
German prince. It is precisely from such wholly spontaneous
demonstrations of friendship from all classes of a proud
people that we gather the assurance that the good spirit
which has been manifested both in Germany and in America by
the visit of our Hohenzollern Prince to the land of George
Washington will continue to work to the advantage of both
peoples in the politically unclouded relations between the
German Empire and the United States.”
