Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938

Identifier

WWP22588

Date

1918 November 9

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Text

   8

[From House

In conversation with French Prime Minister this morning he stated that it was his purpose to work in harmony with the United States in all things (disregarding ?) he asked French Minister for Foreign Affairs who was present to be witness to the promise that he would not bring up any matter at the peace conference that he had not discussed with us, and the inference was clear that if we disagreed he would yield to our wishes and judgment. He declared that it was not our financial and economic assistance that France wanted as much as our moral approval. He thought we had opened a new and more splendid ethical era and France wished to stand with us in upholding it. He thought that the United States and France were the only nations willing to make an unselfish settlement. He begs that this conversation and promise be held in confidence. ]




Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WWI1377.pdf

Collection

Citation

House, Edward Mandell, 1858-1938, “Colonel House to Woodrow Wilson,” 1918 November 9, WWP22588, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.