s’étaient heureusement mis d’accord. Elle a cependant l’avantage de contenir une reconnaissance explicite de l’autorité du Comité interallié.
« Croyez à mes dévoués sentiments.
The French ambassador was kind enough to communicate to me your Excellency’s important message with regard to the use to which the american troops were to be put in cooperating with the troops of France, and I want to assure your Excellency that the question is one to which we have been giving a great deal of careful and anxious thought and with regard to which we are all not only willing but anxious to do the best and most effective thing for the accomplishment of the common purpose to which we are devoting our arms.
General Bliss, who is kindly conveying this letter to you for me, is, as your Excellency probably knows, to be the representative of the United States in the Supreme War Council, and I have instructed him that this particular question which you have very properly called to my attention ought to be discussed with the greatest fulness and frankness in that Council. The judgement of the Council with regard to it will, I need hardly assure you, be conclusively influential with the Government of the United States. Our only desire is to do the best thing that can be done with our armed forces, and we are willing to commit ourselves to the general counsel of those with whom we have the honor to cooperate in this great enterprise of liberty.
Meantime, let me assure you that this question seems to us quite as pressing and important as it
