740.00119 PW/8–2045: Telegram
President Truman to King George VI
Your congratulatory message26 on the success of our armed forces [Page 678] in the Far East is deeply appreciated. We can all properly take pride in our combined efforts which have made military victory possible. Faith in democracy has been justified.
It now remains for us to win the peace. I too am convinced that this end will only be achieved through the continued close cooperation of our peoples in the same spirit of mutual understanding which has grown between us during the years of trial. The American people are fully resolved to do all in their power to maintain with the peoples of the United Nations the peace we have won at such cost.
- Congratulatory messages, not printed, were received by President Truman from Chiefs of State of Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Muscat and Oman, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, Venezuela, and Yugoslavia.↩