Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 8G8.001 G 20/18.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Minister.

No. 37.]

Department of State,
Washington , July 24, 1913 .

Sir: I inclose, with office copy, a letter addressed by the President to the King of the Hellenes, acknowledging His Majesty’s letter in which he informed the President of the death, at the hands of an assassin, of His Majesty George I, King of the Hellenes, and his accession to the throne.

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

I am [etc.]

J. B. Moore.

[Inclosure.]

The President to King Constantine.

Great and Good Friend: I have received the letter in which Your Majesty advised me of the death on the 5/18 of May [March] last, at the hands of an assassin, of Your Majesty’s dearly beloved father, His Majesty George I, King of the Hellenes, and your accession to the throne.

In expressing my sincere and heartfelt, sympathy for Your Majesty’s family and the people of Greece in their sad bereavement, I must at the same time give utterance to the satisfaction with which I received the announcement that you had ascended to the throne, and assure Your Majesty that your wishes for the continuance of the friendly relations subsisting between the two countries are fully appreciated and cordially reciprocated.

May God have Your Majesty in His safe and holy keeping.

Your Good Friend,

Woodkow Wilson.

By the President:
W. J. Bryan,
Secretary of State.

Washington , July 15, 1913 .