Office of the Historian

File No. 821.032.

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

[Extract]
No. 81.]
American Legation,
Bogotá, July 31, 1912.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith in duplicate copies of the Presidential Message to the Congress of 1912, together with translations of that part of the message pertaining to foreign affairs. * * *

I have [etc.]

Leland Harrison.
[Inclosure.—Extract.—Translation.]

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* * * Diplomatic relations with the United States have been cordially maintained since the incident that resulted in the change of the minister at Washington,1 and there is reason to hope that the present sympathy for the cause of Colombia in the United States will have as its natural outcome a just and honorable arrangement of the differences which today unhappily exist between the two nations by reason of the separation of Panama.

  1. General Pedro Nel Ospina resigned February 21, 1912; the new minister, Señor don Julio Betancourt, was received July 25, 1912.↩