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

File No. 863.0011/9.

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of Austria-Hungary.

Department of State,
Washington, June 30, 1914.

My dear Mr. Ambassador: I am greatly shocked and grieved to learn of the terrible affliction which has befallen the people of Austria-Hungary through the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, and I beg of you, my dear Dr. Dumba, to accept, personally, this expression of my profound sympathy.

I am [etc.]

W. J. Bryan

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