Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

Telegram from the King Expressing Thanks for their
Hospitality While in the United States

TELEGRAM

THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON

THE PRESIDENT.

The Queen and I are deeply grateful, Mr. President, to Mrs. Roosevelt and yourself for your hospitality during the past four days. The kindness shown to us personally by you both was endorsed by your fellow_countrymen and country-women with a cordiality that has stirred our hearts. In Washington, in New York and indeed wherever we have been in the United States, we have been accorded a reception of which the friendliness was unmistakable. Though this was our first visit to your great country and though it was necessarily only a brief one, it has given is memories of kindly feeling and good-will that we shall always treasure. To you, our host, and to the many thousands of American citizens who also showed us such true hospitality and such spontaneous courtesy, we send our heartfelt thanks and our best wishes.

GEORGE R.I.

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