Office of the Historian

763.72119/9186: Telegram

The Special Representative ( House ) to the Secretary of State

Paris , November 24, 1918—noon.
[Received November 24—9:20 a.m.]

159. Secret for the President. Your number 59, November 22, 5 p.m. It will be unnecessary for you to bring any domestic servants with you except your valet and Mrs. Wilson’s maid.

I shall take up the matter of the use of English at the conference with the British and hope to secure their support. I am working to secure a definite agreement from the British and French that England, France, Italy and the United States should each have five places at the table, [in line with my] suggestion contained in my number 7 and accepted by you in your number 10.27

Thank you so much for your message of sympathy. I am still in bed and very weak but making satisfactory progress.

Edward House
  1. No. 7 is printed on p. 156; No. 10, on p. 157.↩