File No. 763.72119/268
The Spanish Ambassador (Riaño) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 28.]
Mr. Secretary: His Holiness the Pope, Benedict XV, has asked the Government of His Majesty the King of Spain, my August Sovereign, to felicitate, through me, the Most Excellent the President of the United States, on the peace note addressed to the belligerent nations.
My Government has just instructed me by cablegram received this day to perform the commission of His Holiness.
Confirming the telephone conversation I just had with your excellency, I beg you to have the goodness to ask the President of the Republic to designate the day and hour when he will receive me so that I may have the honor of discharging the above-mentioned pleasing mission.
I avail myself of this opportunity [etc.]