Jacob H. Hollander to Woodrow Wilson

In accordance with your suggestion of March 24, I am enclosing a memorandum upon the present aspects of the Dominican problem. I hope it may seem to you —as it is designed to be— a criticism of policies not of persons. The concern of those who believe in San Domingo and its people is less as to what has been done in the past, than as to what will essayed in the future. I have had no access to recent departmental records and there may be some omissions in what I have written; but the essential facts are, I believe, as set forth.

Finally, may I express the earnest hope that the problem of Latin–America will continue — as I know it has already begun— to receive the sympathetic attention of your administration. The difficulties involved are so complex, the demands of our domestic concerns are so urgent, that there is the greatest danger, that at this particular juncture, when wise statesmanship is needed here as never before, recourse will be had to gunboat–and–marine opportunism.