Office of the Historian

701.6211/282½

President Wilson to the Acting Secretary of State

Washington, October 1, 1914.

My Dear Mr. Lansing: Thank you for letting me see the enclosed.5 I do not feel that we can wisely drop the matter about Baron Schoen. I hope that it will be possible to intimate to Count von Bernstorff that the alleged interview has made so widespread an impression and has been in so many ways called to the attention of the Government that it would be an embarrassment for a great many months to come to Baron Schoen himself and it would be certain seriously to impair his usefulness here. I make this as a suggestion.6

Cordially and faithfully yours,

Woodrow Wilson
  1. Supra.↩
  2. The incident was closed by an interview between the Secretary of State and the German Ambassador in which the latter again expressed regret at the appearance of the interview and stated that Baron von Schoen had been instructed to avoid newspaper comment. (File No. 701.6211/300.)↩