File No. 763.72119/140

The Ambassador in France ( Sharp ) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]

1398. In a speech delivered at Nancy May 14, President [of] French Republic expressed himself textually as follows:

Neither directly nor indirectly have our enemies offered us peace. But we do not wish that they should offer it to us, we wish that they should ask for it; we do not wish to submit to their conditions, we wish to impose ours; we do not desire a peace which would leave imperial Germany mistress to recommence the war, which would suspend over Europe an eternal menace; we desire a peace which would receive serious guarantees of equilibrium and stability by the reestablishment of right.

Sharp