Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, The Lansing Papers, 1914–1920, Volume I

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President Wilson to the Secretary of State

Washington, 30 March, 1915.

My Dear Mr. Secretary: This note⁷¹ is entirely satisfactory to me with the alterations you have suggested, and I entirely approve of adding the paragraph you have drawn as the concluding passage of the note.

I hope that the encyphering and all the handling of this note will be under the safeguards as to privacy which we agreed upon, so that there may be no garbled versions of it current before it reaches London. I assume that it will be agreed between Washington and London that it will be published here upon its receipt and delivery there.

Faithfully Yours,

W. W.

71. For text of the note as sent, see Foreign Relations, 1915, supp., p. 152.