Office of the Historian

File No. 4832/89–91.

[Inclosure 1.]

Commissioner Buchanan to the Venezuelan Minister for Foreign Affairs.

Caracas, January 18, 1909.

Excellency: Complying with my promise, made during one of the recent conferences it has been my pleasure to hold with your excellency, that I would inform you of the purposes of my Government with regard to the reestablishment of diplomatic intercourse between your excellency’s Government and the Government of the United States, I have the honor to advise your excellency that I am authorized by the Secretary of State to say that immediately upon my advising my Government of the signing of a protocol satisfactorily arranging for the definitive settlement of the differences existing between our respective Governments, that have been the subject of the numerous friendly conferences I have had the honor to hold with your excellency, the Government of the United States will at once have great pleasure in instructing its minister to return to Caracas, and in the same spirit of mutual good understanding will be most happy to receive a diplomatic officer from your excellency’s Government.

I take advantage of this opportunity, etc.,

William I. Buchanan.
[Inclosure 2.—Translation.]

The Minister of Foreign Affairs to Mr. Buchanan.

Foreign Office,
Caracas, January 19, 1909.
No. 49.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your esteemed note of the 18th instant in which, in accordance with your kind promise, you are good enough to inform me of your Government’s intentions relative to the renewal of diplomatic intercourse between the Government of this Republic and that of the United States.

I have communicated to the First Magistrate what your excellency was kind enough to impart to me relative to those purposes, and it gives me much pleasure to advise you that the general in charge of the presidency has welcomed the information with entire satisfaction.

In thanking your excellency for the generous interest you have taken in this matter, I avail myself, etc.,

F. Gonzalez Guinan.