Herbert Hoover actually said...

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

07/24/1930

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