Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1909

File No. 4832/88.

The Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Translation.]

Petropolis, February 25, 1909.

I thank your excellency for the telegram you were so good as to send me, announcing the early resumption of diplomatic relations between the United States of America and Venezuela, and it is with genuine pleasure that I beg your excellency to accept and be pleased to transmit to the American Government the lively congratulations of the Brazilian Government on the happy outcome of the mission intrusted to Mr. Buchanan.

Rio Branco.