Office of the Historian

763.72119/2580: Telegram

The Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs ( Uchida ) to the Secretary of State

Tokyo [undated].
[Received November 13, 1918—5:23 p.m.]

Accept my heartiest and warmest congratulations on the triumphant conclusion of an armistice which we trust will lead to a peace, glorious for the forces of human civilization and brought [fraught?] with happiness to the world. Such a fruition of the prolonged struggle will not have been too dearly purchased by all the precious lives [Page 3] of whose suffering and sacrifice we think with one universal pride today.

Uchida