Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 891.001/33.

The Shah to the President.

[Telegram—Translation]

Teheran , July 28, 1914 .

With high appreciation of the kind wishes Your Excellency sends me on the occasion of my coronation, I wish to thank you sincerely. In taking hold of the reins of government my first duty will be to draw closer the ties of friendship which so happily subsist between the two peoples.

Sultan Ahmad Kadjar

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