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President Wilson to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Secretary: May I not ask you to have a full conference with Mr. Baruch63 about this matter? He is at the centre of such information. He and I were speaking of it the other day, and I found that he was familiar with the available stocks in the hands of the War Department. His information and advice ought to enable us to get to a final action.
Am I not right in the impression that it was understood that the Japanese were to supply and supply at once the necessary military supplies for the Czechs?
By the way, it begins to look as if the plan of the Japanese were to do the fighting on their own plan and let the Czecho-Slovaks tag along, instead of acting themselves as a supporting force.
Faithfully Yours,
- Chairman of the War Industries Board.↩