Jacob H. Hollander to Woodrow Wilson
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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.
THE PRESIDENT,
Washington, DC