Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 4, 1917

File No. 839.51/1821

The Secretary of State to Minister Russell

[Telegram—Extract]

Department of State,
Washington, January 2, 1917, 4 p.m.

With reference to conversations at Department it is thought that Military Government may now economize as was suggested.

Lansing