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President Wilson to the Secretary of State
Washington
,
8 September, 1915.
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have no doubt that the memorandum handed you by Ambassador Dumba has made the same impression on you that it has made on me. I see no alternative but to follow the course we decided on yesterday. And I think it would be well to apprise Dumba and the press of what that course is to-day, unless [Page 83] there seems to you to be an impropriety in mentioning it before our communication has reached the Foreign Office in Vienna.
Faithfully Yours,
W. W.