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File No. 763.72/4781c

The Secretary of State to the Minister in Denmark ( Egan)2

[Telegram]
Washington, May 17, 1917, 4 p.m.

354. In scanning German press, please watch for comment indicating German jubilation or satisfaction over what they may take to be America’s dilatory start in the war.

Lansing
  1. The same telegram was sent May 17 to the Minister in Switzerland (No. 582) and the Chargé in the Netherlands (No. 521).↩