MY DEAR GENERAL: Your coming to French soil a year ago filled
our country with enthusiasm and hope. Accept today the grateful
homage of our soldiers for the daily increasing aid on the
battlefield brought by their American brothers in arms. The last
battles, where the magnificent qualities of courage and military
virtue of your troops were demonstrated in so brilliant a manner,
are a sure guarantee of the future. The day is not far off when
the great American Army will play the decisive rôle, to which
history calls this army on the battlefields of Europe. Permit me,
my dear General, to express to you, on this anniversary day, my
entire confidence and assure you of my feelings of affectionate
comradeship.