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File No. 763.72119/316a

The Secretary of State to the Diplomatic Representatives in Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan 3

[Circular telegram]
Washington, January 5, 1917.

Press this morning publishes report that President will send second note to powers in effort to advance peace movement. You may say that this report is utterly false and without foundation and that the President has not in contemplation sending a second note.

Lansing
  1. The same, on the same date, to the Ambassadors in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, except that the second sentence begins, “If inquiry made you may reply,” instead of “You may say” (File No. 763.72119/325a).↩