File No. 033 1100 K77/166.
The Minister of Venezuela to the Secretary of State.
Washington, April 18, 1912.
Excellency: I have the honor to offer to your excellency my congratulations on the sentiments of American fraternity which inspired your recent visit to some of the countries on our continent and especially on the very good impression created in Venezuela by your excellency’s visit.
The pleasant remembrance of that visit will ever be treasured in my country as a new bond of friendship that must strengthen more and more the cordial relations existing between the Venezuelan nation and the great Republic of the United States.
I avail myself [etc.]