500.A15 a 1/293: Telegram
The Chairman of the American Delegation (Gibson) to the Secretary of State
[Received June 20—4:45 p.m.]
12. For the President.
“In my capacity as secretary general of the Conference for the Limitation of Naval Armament, I am requested by the delegates to transmit the following message to you: ‘Profoundly and cordially appreciating the humane and wise initiative of the President of the United States in convening the present Conference with a view to the further reduction of the burden and danger of naval armaments, the delegates assembled desire to tender to him this expression of their highest respect and of their strong hopes of a most satisfactory result.’ (Signed) Wilson.”