793.94/594½
The Secretary of State to President Wilson
Washington
,
October 20, 1917
.
Dear Mr. President: If it meets with your approval I propose to request Viscount Ishii to file with his note of confirmation completing [Page 445] the exchange a confidential memorandum such as the one here enclosed.
I am hastening this matter as rapidly as possible because it takes him several days to communicate with his Government.17
Faithfully yours,
Robert Lansing
- In an undated memorandum received by Secretary Lansing on October 22, President Wilson replied: “Dear Mr. Sec’y: This seems to me to meet the case and has my approval. Woodrow Wilson.”↩