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. 859.155D22/3.]

The Secretary of State to the Secretary to the President .

Department of State,
Washington , January 24, 1911 ¹

My Dear Mr. Hilles: On the 6th instant you wrote me that [etc.].

In reply I beg to say that as the Department had no knowledge of the plan in question I cabled to our Minister at Copenhagen to make inquiries as to same and he now informs me that the King will be very glad to accept, in the name of the Danish Government, the gift in question. Not only can I see no objection to the President’s permitting the use of his name as Honorary President of the American delegation, which will present the deed, but I think it would be in every way advisable for the President to accept.

Sincerely yours,

P. C. Knox.

1. Should be 1912.