[Translation.]
République française.
Ministère des Affaires Étrangères:
Direction des Affaires Politiques et Commerciales.
Paris, 14th February, 1918.
Sir,
As arranged at our meeting on Saturday, the 9th of this month, the Government of the Republic, so as to make definite its views on the subject of Zionist aspirations with regard to the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine, has sent a communication to the Press.
In sending you this text, I wish to take the opportunity of congratulating you on the splendid devotion with which you are furthering the aspirations of your co-religionists, and of thanking you for the way in which you have made known to them the sympathy with which all the countries of the Entente, and especially France, are watching their efforts.
Please accept assurances of my most cordial sympathy.
(Signed) Pichon.