File No. 812.001C23/30
President Carranza to President Wilson
Mexico, May 1, 1917.
Great and Good Friend: I have the honor to inform Your Excellency that having been elected by the free vote of my fellow-citizens to the presidency of the republic, I have, on this day, taken possession of my high office with the legal formalities.
In fulfilling this agreeable duty, it is extremely satisfactory to me to express to Your Excellency the earnest desire and firm intention of my Government to cultivate and to extend the frank and cordial relations which happily link the United Mexican States with the United States of America over whose destinies Your Excellency presides.
Hoping that Your Excellency entertains the same sentiments with regard to Mexico, I take pleasure in availing of this occasion to express the sincere wishes which I feel for the aggrandizement of the United States of America and for the personal happiness of Your Excellency, at the same time, tendering you the assurances of my highest consideration and especial esteem with which I have the honor to sign myself, Your Excellency’s
Loyal and Good Friend,