Woodrow Wilson to Frank L. Polk

Title

Woodrow Wilson to Frank L. Polk

Creator

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Identifier

WWP25109

Date

1918 August 8

Description

President advises the department counselor on what they should tell MacMurray in Asia.

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers

Publisher

Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum

Subject

MacMurray, John Van Antwerp, 1881-1960
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Contributor

Morgan Willer

Language

English

Provenance

Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.

Text

My dear Mr. Counselor:

I think that with regard to the matter you discussed in the letter which I return with this, that this is one about which we ought to go very slowly and with a very careful preliminary determination of large questions of policy. I do not like what Mr. MacMurray reports with regard to the British and Japanese ministers, and I think they are going too fast. They are trying to scoop everything while the war is in course and are thereby making the difficulties of settlement when the war is over every day greater. My advice is that for the present we instruct MacMurray to protest against any present effort to settle questions of this kind.

Cordially and faithfully yours,


Hon. Frank L. Polk,
Acting Secretary of State.

Original Format

Letter

To

Polk, Frank L. (Frank Lyon), 1871-1943

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/WWI1119.pdf

Collection

Citation

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Frank L. Polk,” 1918 August 8, WWP25109, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.