Frank I. Cobb to Colonel House

I have made a rough draft of the challenge for The Tageblatt and a request to the State Department. It seemed to me better that the State Department request be made perfunctory and formal without assuming that the Government was concerned in any way with the matter, but had merely been asked to transmit it, as it is asked to transmit a thousand other things. That might be much more discreet than trying to arrange an alibi.

Please make any changes whatever that you deem wise in the draft of both these communications.


Colonel E. M. House,
Magnolia, Mass.