Woodrow Wilson to Robert Lansing

The French Ambassador told me this afternoon that some proposal for a joint declaration about this matter was on its way over the cables to him, our assent, or dissent, being desired by to-morrow, in order that the declaration, if agreed to, should be uttered on Sunday; but the message was then incomplete and he gave me no intimation of its character.

I had assumed that we would name no formal public declaration, but that we would make public our communication to the Serbian minister after acquainting the governments with which we are associated with its contents. I do not now know of any nearby public occasion on which I could embody it naturally in what I might have to say.