File No. 871.001F37/3.

The Secretary of State to Minister Vopicka.

No. 35.]

Sir: The Department acknowledges the receipt of your despatch No. 143, Roumanian Series, of October 24 last, enclosing a letter addressed to the President by His Majesty Ferdinand in which he announced the death on October 10, 1914, of His Majesty Carol I and his accession to the throne of Roumania.

The Department encloses herewith, with office copy, a letter addressed by the President to His Majesty Ferdinand, King of Roumania, acknowledging the letter transmitted with your despatch of the 24th of October.

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

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:
Robert Lansing
.
[Inclosure.]

President Wilson to King Ferdinand.

Great and Good Friend: I have received the letter of the 17th of October last in which Your Majesty informed me of the death, on the 10th of the same month, of your beloved uncle, His Majesty Carol I, and your accession to the throne of Roumania.

In expressing my sincere and heartfelt sympathy for Your Majesty and the people of Roumania in their bereavement, I must at the same time give utterance to the satisfaction with which I received the announcement that you had ascended 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,

Woodrow Wilson
.

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