File No. 831.415A/6.

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

[Translation.]
No. 1940.]

Most Excellent Sir: Venezuela is celebrating the first centennial of its independence and would be most highly gratified if the most excellent President and Government of the United States, whom I have the honor to invite by order of the Constitutional President and through your excellency’s worthy medium, would be represented at the festivities, which, on that imperishable and transcendent occasion, will take place during the first week of the grand month of July next, in which comes the fifth, the glorious date of that proclamation, and so join in the patriotic rejoicings of Venezuela, which ever remembers that the first nation to recognize its independence was the United States of America.

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Owing to the existing good and cordial relations and the desire that these relations shall grow day by day more intimate, the Government and people of Venezuela entertain the belief that the United States will favorably receive this invitation.

I avail, etc.,

M. A. Matos.

[To be continued in Foreign Relations, 1911.]