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President Wilson to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I have your letter of July seventeenth about the landing of the cable at Miami, Florida, and in reply suggest that we postpone such questions until the international conference on communications has discussed the whole matter and we have before us a general plan by which we can shape our various decisions in matters of this sort.
I beg that you will seek the cooperation of the Departments of War, Navy and Justice in preventing the Western Union Telegraph Company from landing a cable in defiance of the law, and request that you show them this letter as their authorization to comply.
Cordially and faithfully yours,