Edward M. House Papers: Telegram

The Special Representative ( House ) to President Wilson

18. I am delighted to receive your number 16.14 I am confident that everything will now work out satisfactorily. You will probably be made Honorary President of the Congress and the French Prime Minister Acting President.

I am arranging with Pershing to have our army engineers make an approximate estimate of the damage done in Belgium and France.15

Edward House
  1. Supra.
  2. For additional correspondence on this subject, see vol. ii, pp. 575 ff.