Jacob H. Hollander to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Jacob H. Hollander to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Hollander, Jacob H. (Jacob Harry), 1871-1940

Identifier

WWP17603

Date

1913 March 22

Description

Jacob H. Hollander writes to Woodrow Wilson requesting an interview in reference to San Domingo.

Source

Wilson Papers, Library of Congress, Library of Congress, Washington, District of Columbia

Subject

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924--Correspondence

Text

political economy
jacob h. hollander
george e. barnett


My dear President Wilson

I should like very much to have a brief interview with you in regard to affairs in San Domingo. 1. As you are perhaps aware, some years ago circumstances made it necessary for me to investigate in great detail the economic and political condition of that country, and eventually to effect a drastic scaling down of its semi–fraudulent debt, and to establish its public economy upon a sound basis.
This wholesome situation has been gravely impaired by the blundering policies of the State Department in the past three years — with which I have had no connection whatever — whereby the United States has become seriously and unnecessarily involved and the prosperity and progress of San Domingo arrested.

Whatever new policy or whatever change in policy is now contemplated, I am sure that it is your desire that this course should be based upon a full knowledge of the situation. It is with no wish to obtrude suggestion, but only because no one else has had the opportunity — or the inclination — to endeavor to master the facts that make up the Dominican tangle, that I am impelled to address you.

Jacob H. Hollander.


THE PRESIDENT,
Washington, DC

Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Temp00054.pdf

Citation

Hollander, Jacob H. (Jacob Harry), 1871-1940, “Jacob H. Hollander to Woodrow Wilson,” 1913 March 22, WWP17603, First Year Wilson Papers, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.