Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Paris Peace Conference, 1919, Volume I

763.72119/2591: Telegram

The British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ( Balfour ) to the Secretary of State

London [undated].
[Received November 14, 1918—5:45 a.m.]

Your generous message has given the utmost satisfaction to His Majesty’s Government, and it will be read with profound appreciation throughout the British Empire. We are proud to think that in the cause of international freedom we, like our Allies, have worked and suffered, fought and conquered side by side with the people of your great country. May this unity of ideals bind us ever closer together through all the generations to whom the Great War will be no more than an ancient and glorious memory.

Balfour