File No. 811.142/619

The Minister in Roumania, Servia, and Bulgaria (Vopicka) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

61. Department’s 77, 19th. Servian Minister Foreign Affairs replies:

I thank your excellency for his telegram of March 22. We have already expressed to the American Red Cross and the Rockefeller Foundation our most lively gratitude for sending the sanitary commission under the direction of Dr. Richard Strong and we beg you to again express to them our deep thanks, adding that all facilities will be given to the commission for the execution of its noble mission and that the royal authorities will be entirely at their disposition in order to execute measures that they will judge useful. Kindly accept also personally our renewed thanks for the generous efforts that you have made in order to obtain for our wounded and sick the help which is so precious to us.

Pashitch

American Minister