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The Acting Secretary of State to the Secretary of State

[Washington,] September 29, 1914.

Dear Mr. Secretary: I prepared this instruction7 with the idea that it be sent at once so that it could be in Ambassador Page’s hands in case his informal representations failed. My idea was to avoid any criticism of the Administration for failure to protest promptly against infringement of American rights. The President, however, thought it would be better to await the result of the telegraphic instruction of last night8 which was based on the annexed.7

Robert Lansing
  1. No enclosure with file copy of this letter.↩
  2. Foreign Relations, 1914, supp., p. 232.↩
  3. No enclosure with file copy of this letter.↩