500.A4b/301
The Secretary of State to the Secretary of the Navy (Wilbur)
My Dear Mr. Secretary: In addition to the formal routine letter of February seventeenth3 in which I acknowledged the receipt of your letter of the same date advising me of the completion of the work of the scrapping of vessels required to be demolished under the treaty limiting naval armament, I desire to write you more personally an expression of my appreciation of the skill, the loyalty, and the carefulness of the public interest, with which your Department has carried to a conclusion the difficult task imposed upon it by the treaty. This work has, I realize, called for the most careful and judicious planning; and I feel that the way in which it has been carried out is worthy of the fine traditions of our naval service.
With high regard [etc.]
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