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LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISION\n\nBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET  \nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permission trom Columbia UniversityLbraries.                  \nRESTBICTIONS ON USE:  \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nREDUCTION RATIO:            \nIMAGE PLACEMENT:IA(  \nDATE FILMED:                  5-8-97INITIALS:          。  \nTBACKING\\#:                                                                                                      24245  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n# INTENTIONALSECOND\n\nEXPOSURES DUE TOPHOTOGRAPHS  \n]hrougn tue Pibluent's uiticu  \nSPAIN  \nGREETSAMERICABYTELEPHONE  \n308  \nZ  \nBcx 282  \n# SPAIN GREETS AMERICAbyTELEPHONE\n\n0FFICIAL INAUGURATION OFTELEPHONE SERVICEBETWEEN THEUNITED STATES AND SPAIN一OCTOBER 13,1928  \nINTERNATIONALTELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION67 BROAD STREETNEW YORK,N.Y.  \nJune 27, 1980 DA  \n# SPAIN GREETS AMERICA\n\nCEREMONY INAUGURATING TELEPHONECOMMUNICATION BETWEEN SPAINAND THE UNITED STATES  \nPEAKING over a radio and cable telephone cir-cuit 6,500 miles long,by which voice communica-tion was transmitted in approximately one-fifthof a second,King Alfonso XIII of Spain and CalvinCoolidge,President of the United States,inauguratedcommercial telephone service between their respectivecountries at 10:00 o'clock Saturday morning,October 13.  \nThe significance o the above,falling during the epochwhen Spain is celebrating the discovery of America,wasemphasized by the fact that this is the first time thatthe chiefexecutives of two nations have conversed fromtheir respective capitals across the Atlantic.  \nHis Majesty,with his ministers and other distin-guished guests,had assembled in the fourteen-storiedbuilding of the Companía Telefónica Nacional de Es-pana in Madrid,one of the associated companies of theInternational Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.They were plainly moved by the dramatic significanceand the great international importance of the linkingof these two nations by telephony.Following the ceremonies His Majesty expressed honest praise for theclarity of the service.  \nPresident Coolidge spoke directly from the Board of  \n# BuILDING OF THE CoMPAKATELEFONICA NACIONAL DE EsPANA,MADRID\n\n1  \nDirectors'room in the Chamber of Commerce of theUnited States at Washington,D.C.  \nThe inaugural ceremony was simple and brief and wascarried to completion in Washington in the presence ofdistinguished government officials,diplomats,and busi-ness executives who surrounded President Coolidge.The informality of the program did not,however,de-tract from the widespread significance of the occasionwhich marked the opening of the most rapid and directcontact between Spain and the New World to whichher bold mariners first brought Christian civilizationfour hundred and thirty-six years ago.The actual cere-mony lasted approximately fourteen minutes  \nHis Majesty was introduced by Colonel SosthenesBehn,President of the International Telephone andTelegraph Corporation,who presided and presented,inaddition,the Honorable Martínez Anido,Minister ofthe Interior,the Marqués de Urquijo,President of theCompanía Telefónica Nacional de Espaňa,and the Hon-orable Ogden H.Hammond,Ambassador to Spain.  \nIn the Chamber of Commerce building at Washington,Walter S.Gifford,President of the American Telephoneand Telegraph Company,presented the speakers.  \nThe Board of Directors'room in the Chamber ofCommerce,which was reserved for the occasion,wasarranged with a table opposite the entrance at whichsat President Coolidge;Seior Don Mariano de Amoedoy Galarmendi,Chargé d'Affaires of the Royal SpanishEmbassy;Honorable Reuben Clark,Acting Secretaryof State;WalterS.Gifford;and Joseph H.Defrees,Chair-man of the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Com-  \nmerce of the United States.Guests sat at tables arrangedin the shape of a 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