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President Wilson to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have myself received intimations of the feeling on the part of the men at the head of the news-gathering associations and of some of the leading editors of the country, to which you refer in your letter of September first. It is based upon a complex of misunderstandings (many of which are now being removed) and of jealousies which I can expound to you some time, but the net result of my impressions is that it would be safest not to call them into systematic conference. They are a difficult lot to live with. They do not agree among themselves.
Cordially and sincerely yours,