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Message of Sympathy on the Death of Conde Benoist Pallen.

May 28, 1929

[Released May 28, 1929. Dated May 27, 1929]

My dear Mrs. Pallen:

In these dark first moments of your sorrow I hesitate to write to you because I have not had the privilege of acquaintance with you and your late husband, but I cannot forbear to send you my sincerest sympathy and to say how great is, I feel, the public loss of the whole country in the death of one who gave so largely to the men and women of his time of the rich fruits of a sincere and high-minded search for the everlasting truths. I pray that such thoughts as these may help you bear your loss.

Yours faithfully,

HERBERT HOOVER

[Mrs. Conde Benoist Pallen, Blackstone Hotel, New York City]

Note: Conde Benoist Pallen was the author of poems and books and an editor of various Roman Catholic publications.

Herbert Hoover, Message of Sympathy on the Death of Conde Benoist Pallen. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/210092

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