translate English to French: He frankly admitted in his private correspondence that he had urged the Government to expedite the creation of the Board even before the 1915 incident, and that his resignation from the CSC and transfer to the Board was a mutually acceptable agreement between the Government and himself.
Il reconnut franchement, dans sa correspondance privée, qu'il avait exhorté le gouvernement, même avant l'incident de 1915, à créer le Conseil, et que sa démission de la C.S.C. et sa nomination au Conseil constituaient un arrangement acceptable pour le gouvernement et pour lui-même.