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President Wilson to the Secretary of State

My Dear Mr. Secretary: After all, this* does not express Page’s own opinion, but what he takes to be public opinion at the moment in Great Britain.

It is a very serious thing to have such things thought, because everything that affects the opinion of the world regarding us affects our influence for good.

Faithfully Yours,

W. W.
  1. Page’s despatch about the Lusitania, which I find I have burned. [Footnote in the original. The despatch is printed in Foreign Relations, 1915, supp., p. 385.]