File No. 868.001 G 29/3.
The Acting Secretary of State to the Chargé d’Affaires of Greece.
Washington , March 20, 1913 .
Sir: I have had the honor to receive your note of the 19th instant officially communicating the sad intelligence of the death at the hand of an assassin of the late King of Greece.
When the first news of this lamentable event reached the United States on the 18th instant, the President, inexpressibly shocked to hear of the terrible crime, at once, by cable, offered to Her Majesty Queen Olga, to the royal family and to the Greek nation, the expression of his own sympathy and the sincere condolences of the Government and people of the United States; and on the same day the American Minister at Athens was by cable instructed to convey to the Greek Government and Chambers the sentiments of horror and sorrow felt by the Government of the United States.
To these I desire to add the expression of my own deep sympathy.
Accept [etc.]