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On the recordJuly 24, 1930
The people of the United States join me in extending to Your Majesty and to the people of Italy sincerest sympathy in the great losses suffered in the earthquake which has wrought such widespread destruction in the vicinity of Naples.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message of Sympathy to King Vittorio Emanuele III Following an Earthquake Disaster in Italy.

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