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

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The Secretary of State to President Wilson

Washington, February 18, 1916.

My Dear Mr. President: You are perfectly right in what you stated to me over the telephone in regard to the message from London which I handed you this morning.³⁷ It is undoubtedly the expression of the Ambassador.

. . . I am relieved to find that it is not the expression of Colonel House, as I was unable to see any consistency between this dispatch and the dispatches which he had been sending previously.

I am enclosing herewith a memorandum of the conversation which I had yesterday noon with the German Ambassador.³⁸

Faithfully yours,

Robert Lansing

37. Supra.
38. Foreign Relations, 1916, supp., p. 172.