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Bureau of Foreign Intelligence

Ootober 10. 1917.

AmEmbassy

Petrograd.

The President has received a telegram of sympathy and friendly
assurance from Catherine Bressovsky, chairman of the Russian
Committee on Civic Education, and directs you to communicate
the following acknowledgment: quote It has afforded me
genuine pleasure to receive your eloquent message of September
twenty-fifth. stop At this hour, when the historic events of the
past few months have brought Russia into such close touch with
America, it is most enheartening to witness the courage with
which the new Russia faces the problems of the future, especially
when the high mission of national enlightenment and preparedness
for the great duties which fall upon a civic democracy is advanced
promoted by such an educational organization as yours stop
We of America long since learned that intellectual development and
moral fitness are the most powerful elements of national advancement
stop As the individual is the type of of the nation, so
the nation should embody the highest individual ideals of civil
perfection, in order to assert and maintain its honorable position
in the world family of commonwealth, fulfilling its material
and moral duties towards its neighbors, strong in the night of
right and fearless in the cause of truth and justice. stop

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