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The Commissioners Plenipotentiary ( Lansing , White , House , Bliss ) to President Wilson 11

January 8, 1919.

Dear Mr. President: In compliance with your desire to be furnished with a list of the subjects which, in our opinion, should be taken up first at our conferences, we beg to suggest that we now proceed to consider the following questions in the order given below:

1.
Representation.
2.
The League of Nations.
3.
Reparation.
4.
New States.
5.
Territorial Adjustments.
6.
Colonial Possessions.

We are [etc.]

  • Robert Lansing
  • Henry White
  • E. M. House
  • Tasker H. Bliss
  1. Reprinted from Ray Stannard Baker, Woodrow Wilson and World Settlement (Garden City, N. Y., 1922), vol. i, p. 197.↩