Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 512.81D7.

[Untitled]

Department of State,
Washington, March 9, 1915.

To the Diplomatic Officers of the United States in Latin America.

Gentlemen: By an Act of Congress approved March 4, 1915, the President is authorized to extend invitations to the Governments of Central and South America, the Dominican Republic and Cuba, to be represented by official delegates at the meeting of the Pan American Medical Congress to be held in the City of San Francisco, California, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, from June 17 to 21, inclusive, 1915.

You will accordingly extend to the Governments to which you are respectively accredited a cordial invitation to be represented by delegates at the Congress mentioned; and in doing so you will add an expression of the pleasure with which the Government of the United States will learn of the acceptance of the invitation.

I am [etc.]

For the Secretary of State:

Robert Lansing.