811.3347/89: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Consul at Melbourne (Anderson)
Please deliver the following message to the Governor General in answer to his message sent to the President through the British Embassy:
“I have received with appreciation the cordial message you have sent me on behalf of the Government and people of Australia on the occasion of the visit of the American Fleet. I know that the people of Australia join with the people of the United States in their purpose of maintaining the peace of the world. This, I believe, can best be secured through a full and sympathetic understanding between the nations, through faith in their honorable intentions, through their common determination to eliminate causes of possible dispute and their integral fulfillment of international obligations. In questions touching the great region of the Pacific, I am sure that our aims will always be similar, that with the assistance of the other nations which look out on the Pacific peace will be so clearly the established order that it will become a beneficent tradition. It is my earnest hope that this visit of the fleet will draw more closely the bonds of friendship between our two commonwealths that through the understanding so developed it will strengthen our common will for peace. Signed Calvin Coolidge”.