File No. 853.00/210.

The Minister of Portugal to the Secretary of State.

Sir: I have the honor to inclose a copy of a dispatch I have received from the minister for foreign affairs at Lisbon.

I avail, etc.,

Alte.
[Inclosure—Translation.]

The Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs to the Minister of Portugal.

Your Excellency: The Constituent National Assembly having solemnly confirmed the change of institutions as proclaimed on October 5, I beg your excellency to be pleased to express to the Government to which you are accredited, at the earliest opportunity, my great satisfaction at the good relations maintained with the Government of the Republic during the period that has just expired, which relations I confidently look upon as a pledge of unalterable friendship between Portugal and that country.

Your excellency will also avail yourself of the opportunity to confirm the impression of profound gratitude on the part of the Portuguese Nation for that Government’s prompt and final recognition of the Republic.

Greetings and fraternity.

Bernardino Machado.