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The Counselor for the Department of State ( Lansing ) to Dr. Charles Noble Gregory 27

My Dear Gregory: I found time at last to read carefully your paper on “Neutrality and Arms Shipments”28 and I wish now to congratulate you most heartily on the comprehensive treatment of the subject and the conclusive and convincing character of your arguments. I think you have left nothing unsaid and have deprived those who are clamoring for an embargo without a leg to stand on.

My regret is that the paper has not been given greater publicity. It deserves to be read throughout the country.

Very sincerely yours,

Robert Lansing
  1. Chairman of the Standing Committee on International Law of the American Bar Association.
  2. Published in the New York Herald, May 16, 1915. The file copy bears the notation in Mr. Lansing’s hand: “June 6, 1915. I have read this with much interest and consider the arguments sound and convincing. It should be used in case the question is officially discussed. Robert Lansing.”