10. Message from the French Minister of Foreign Affairs
From: Mons. Georges Bidault,
Minister for Foreign Affairs,
Paris.
To: Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru.
In the name of my Government and in my own I salute the historic date which marks the final accession of India to the ranks of the World’s great free nations devoted to the cause of peace and earnestly desirous of the prosperity of all the peoples of the world. I request your Excellency to accept, on this occasion, the renewed assurances of my very high consideration and of my entire devotion to the cause of friendship between our two countries.