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.
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
Collection
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.