033.5511/14: Telegram
The Minister in Belgium ( Whitlock ) to the Secretary of State
[Received 9.42 p.m.]
300. For the President:
In an audience with the King to-day I had the honor to present to His Majesty your invitation to visit America. He was pleased and said he accepted with great gratitude not only, as he said, because it gave him an opportunity to return the visit with which you honored Belgium and to thank America for all she had done for this country and people, but because he would be enabled to study our institutions as well. In my telegram number 2991 I said that he would like to sail in August but he informed me to-day that he will probably not be able to get away until some time in September and that he would spend the month of October in America. He asked me to consult with our Government, arrange the details and submit them to him later.
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