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File No. 860d.00/162

The Secretary of State to the President

The President: The undersigned, the Secretary of State, has the honor to lay before the President an address, signed by representatives of Finland at Washington, requesting that the Government of the United States recognize the Government of Finland and enter into friendly relations with it.1

Respectfully submitted.

Robert Lansing

Washington , May 11, 1918 .
  1. Not printed; see the last paragraph of the memorandum of the Secretary of State, Feb, 27, ante, p. 755.↩