File No. 763.72/3669½
The French Ambassador ( Jusserand) to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Secretary: Referring to our conversation of yesterday, I beg to confirm what I said of my Government’s intention to send to the United States, if agreeable to President Wilson, a mission formed of two or three of our most noteworthy citizens who would be entrusted with the care of expressing to him, whose recent utterances have created among us such a deep impression, and to the American people, our sentiments of friendship and our trust in the successful issue of our common efforts.
The mission would be composed of Mr. Viviani, Vice President of the Council of Ministers, of Marshal Joffre, and probably a vice admiral.
Nothing will be done until we know how this project would be considered by the President whose address of last Monday has won him equal admiration on both sides of the ocean.
Believe me [etc.]