-2-  3366, August 1, midnight (S‚CTION TWO) from London.
 
matters was authorized to represent the State Department. 
     The failure to realize the ultimate  importance of the secret treaties was matched by the
failure to understand the economic necssities of the aftermath of war. I know that your knowledge
of these experiences will prevent the recurrence of the preventable tragedies which occurred in the
critical years following November 1918 and which in the present crisis would extend beyond
enemy frontiers to those wider areas of allied and submerged peoples now under German
domination.
     I hope these suggestions may be helpful, I know your deep and abiding interest in the
common welfare of all people everywhere.
 
     (END OF MESSAGE)
 
                                        WINANT
 
ALC