875.001Zog/19: Telegram
King Zog to President Coolidge
Deeply moved by the congratulations and the good wishes Your Excellency has so kindly expressed on the occasion of my accession to the throne of Albania, I hasten to present to you the assurance of my most profound gratitude for this act of cordial friendship toward my person and for the Albanian people.
On this occasion it is a pleasure for me to convey to you an expression of the sentiments of gratitude which my people continue to cherish toward the noble people of the United States for the humane [Page 849] assistance which they gave through the medium of the American Red Cross to my people at a critical time.
Furthermore, the Albanian people are most grateful for the generous hospitality which the great Republic of the United States so liberally extends to the Albanians in the United States, thus bestowing upon them the benefits of American culture and welfare.
Please accept, Excellency, my most sincere good wishes for your happiness and for the greater prosperity of the noble people of the United States.
- Date of receipt by the Department not indicated; released to the press on Sept. 20, 1928.↩