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

763.72/1780½

President Wilson to the Counselor for the Department of State (Lansing)

Washington, June 7, 1915.

My Dear Lansing: Thank you for letting me see this.⁹⁸ I have no doubt that it interprets a very large element of opinion in the country, but I do not think that anything that we are doing would exclude temperate action.

Faithfully yours,

Woodrow Wilson

98. Mr. Lansing had forwarded to President Wilson a telegram from Mr. Daniel F. Kellogg, of New York, in which arbitration of the Lusitania case was suggested and in which it was stated that “people here would be strongly adverse to any government action that would make war possible on any grounds that have been disclosed to date.” (File No. 763.72/1779½.)