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The Secretary of State to President Wilson

My Dear Mr. President: I call your special attention to this telegram received this morning from Berlin,77 which appears to me to create a very serious situation, if Mr. Gerard is accurate in his presumptions—which sound to me very reasonable.

Faithfully yours,

Robert Lansing
  1. Telegram No. 4912, Jan. 21, 1917, from the Ambassador in Germany, ibid., 1917, supp. 1, p. 91.