Office of the Historian

763.72/9817

The Secretary of State to President Wilson

Washington, May 13, 1918 .

My Dear Mr. President: In accordance with our conversation of the 10th in relation to the oppressed races of Austria-Hungary I sent a telegram to Ambassador Page at Rome—a copy of which is enclosed.91

I am also enclosing a statement which might be given out here in this country in relation to this matter, which, I think, would have a very great influence upon a large body of our population.92 If you approve the statement will you please indicate it?

Faithfully yours,

Robert Lansing
  1. Foreign Relations, 1918, supp. 1, vol. i, p. 803.↩
  2. For text of this statement as issued, see ibid., p. 808.↩