Edouard J. Réquin to Cary T. Grayson

Title

Edouard J. Réquin to Cary T. Grayson

Creator

Réquin, Edouard, 1879-1953

Identifier

WWP15746

Date

1919 May 1

Source

Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Staunton, Virginia

Language

English

Text

Dear Admiral Grayson

REPUBLIQUE FRANÇAISE

I appreciate in a particular way your kind congratulations and thank you with all my heart.

The medal for distinguished services with which the President of the United States has been kind enough to honor me, is infinitely precious to me. But I desire that it be equally a recompense for future as well as for past services because American and French co-operation must be as intimate in the work of peace as they were during the war. To preserve our friendship and develop our collaboration, I shall exert all my efforts during my entire life. While writing you, I cannot help recalling the difficult hours when you came to my aid; but I recall them with pleasure because at the most critical moments I never ceased to express officially and in writing my absolute confidence in the army of the United States even before it existed! You would . . . . . . . . when events proved that I was right.

Please accept, I beg you, the expression of my most respectful homages for Mrs. Grayson and, for you, the assurance of my profoundly devoted sentiments.

(signed) Lt. Col. E. Requin.

Original Format

Letter

To

Grayson, Cary T. (Cary Travers), 1878-1938

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/D06363.pdf

Citation

Réquin, Edouard, 1879-1953, “Edouard J. Réquin to Cary T. Grayson,” 1919 May 1, WWP15746, Cary T. Grayson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.