Office of the Historian

File No. 763.72119/1072

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Russia ( Francis)

[Telegram]
Washington, January 9, 1918, 2 p.m.

1973. Referring your 2187, January 3, 12 p.m. President delivered speech to Congress yesterday stating war aims and attitude toward Russia. It was cabled you at once.1 Have it conveyed unofficially to Trotslry. Report results also of measures taken to circulate it.

Lansing
  1. The President’s address to Congress of Jan. 8, 1918, containing the “fourteen points” of peace was cabled abroad for publication by the Committee on Public Information.↩