Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 816.48/7a

President Wilson to President Melendez

[Telegram]

The White House,
Washington , June 9, 1917 .

I wish to extend to you my heartfelt sympathy in the terrible disaster that has overtaken El Salvador, and to express, in my own name and that of the American people an earnest desire to render every possible aid and assistance to your country in its distress and to the sufferers from this calamity.

Woodrow Wilson