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821.012/23

The Chargé in Colombia ( Greene ) to the Secretary of State

No. 2469
Bogotá , December 2, 1938.
[Received December 13.]

Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the Department’s telegram No. 72 dated November 25, 1 p.m., transmitting a message from President Roosevelt to the President of the Colombian Senate.

The message was conveyed immediately through the Foreign Office which replied in a communication dated November 30, received today, stating that the President’s message had been forwarded to the President of the Senate.

I was unable to call on the President of the Senate personally to comply with President Roosevelt’s desire for me to express appreciation on his personal behalf as the President of the Senate at the close of the session on November 17 returned to his residence in Ibague, some distance from Bogotá.

Respectfully yours,

Winthrop S. Greene