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President Wilson to the Secretary of State
11 March, 1915.
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I think you are quite right about this matter. We must be infinitely patient.
We can very properly, as these reports and complaints are brought to us, ask that we be supplied with definite particulars and tangible proof, and explain that without them it was impossible for us even to set the processes of investigation afoot. But that, I think, is the most we can do. I do not think that such letters as Mr. Lansing suggests, true and justified in reason though they be, would be wise.
Faithfully Yours,
W. W.