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President Wilson to the Secretary of State
My Dear Mr. Secretary: I return the enclosed papers (or, rather, the attached papers)16 with my approval, except that I hope that you will modify the language of page ten (10) of “A” so as not to carry the implication that the British Foreign Office has been dealing insincerely with us. Whatever the appearances may be to that effect, I think it would be wise, as well as kind, not to indicate such an impression on our part, since it is not necessary to our argument. A little change of phraseology will be easy, I hope.
Both papers seem to me to be unusually interesting and quite unanswerable; and I approve the suggestion of arbitration, to which you especially call my attention.
Faithfully Yours,
- See supra.↩