841.711/349
The Secretary of State to President Wilson
My Dear Mr. President: I enclose a draft of a note to the British Ambassador on the subject of interference with the mails.95 I have been delayed in preparing this because it required considerable research and in addition I have not been to the Department for the past three days and may not be for two or three days to come.
I consider it very important that this note should be delivered as soon as possible because the mail detentions are becoming more [Page 309] and more irritating to our people. I believe a way can be found for Great Britain to modify her present practice, but such a consideration will come after the note is delivered.
I would be obliged for any suggestions or changes you may see fit to make in the draft, which you will oblige me by sending to my house after you have examined it.
Faithfully yours,
- For text of the note as sent, see identic note to the French Ambassador, Foreign Relations, 1916, supp., p. 604. For correspondence previously printed on the subject of interference with the mails, see ibid., pp. 591 ff.↩