Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 819.001 P 82/4.

The Secretary of State to the American Chargé d’Affaires.

No. 89.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 14, 1912.

Sir: I enclose, with office copy, a letter addressed by the President to His Excellency Belisario Porras, acknowledging his letter of October 1 last in which he announced his election to the Presidency of Panama and his entrance upon the duties of that office.

You will forward the copy to the Foreign Office and deliver the original in the manner most agreeable to His Excellency.

I am [etc.],

P. C. Knox.

[Inclosure.]

The President to the President of Panama.

The White House,
Washington, November 1, 1912.

Great and Good Friend: I have received the letter of the 1st of October last in which Your Excellency announced that, having been chosen to occupy the First Magistracy of the Republic, you had on that day assumed the Supreme Command.

I cordially reciprocate the sentiments you express for the continuance of the friendly relations which have heretofore existed between the United States and Panama, and I assure Your Excellency of my best wishes for your personal welfare and for the prosperity of the Republic over which you have been called to preside.

Your Good Friend,

Wm. H. Taft.