all venerate, but who is only the symbol of a mutilated Fatherland, a fatherland oppressed, pillaged, muzzled, which does not want to be in slavery to Germany and which, with the help of God and the Americans, it will escape. If you could communicate this letter to the President I would have no objection to your doing so, confidentially, naturally. With my best wishes for your rapid and complete recovery, I am, my dear Ambassador, Cordially and Devotedly, W. D'ORMESSON. |