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. 4832/89–91.

Special Commissioner Buchanan to the Secretary of State.

Washington, February 26, 1909.

Sir: In connection with my mission to Venezuela, I received instructions from the department authorizing me to communicate to the Venezuelan Government the conditions under which the United States would return its minister to Caracas.

With regard to the above instruction, I beg to inclose herewith a copy of my note of January 18 addressed to the minister for foreign affairs of Venezuela, together with his original note replying thereto and a translation.

I have, etc.,

Wm. I. Buchanan.