763.72119/2580: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs ( Uchida )
Washington
, November 15, 1918—6:41 p.m.
I appreciate highly your telegram of congratulation on the triumph of the united strength of human civilization over the baneful forces which aimed to rule the world for themselves alone.
The difficulties which beset us have been overcome. The enemy has been vanquished and inspired as we are by the common ideals for which we have fought, and by the teachings of the trials and sufferings which we have shared, we can now turn with hopeful confidence to the work which remains to be done.
Robert Lansing