763.72/7796a

The Secretary of State to President Wilson

My Dear Mr. President: Before I left the city on Friday last I told you that I was having prepared a memorandum in regard to our grounds of complaint against Austria. Mr. Woolsey, the Solicitor for the Department has prepared such a memorandum and I [Page 61] enclose it herewith.51 We have not a very strong case against Austria so far as hostile acts are concerned. It seems to me that it comes down very largely to a matter of national safety in having at large and free to act a very considerable body of Austrian subjects in this country.

Faithfully yours,

Robert Lansing
  1. No copy of this enclosure found in Department files.