Robert Lansing to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Robert Lansing to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928

Identifier

WWP22167

Date

1917 December 22

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Text

My dear Mr. President

I enclose to you a dispatch which has just been received from that man Anderson who, you will remember, went into Austria without authority and whom we endeavored to stop but evidently failed to do.

I am deeply concerned over his activities and suggest that a paraphrase of this dispatch be immediately delivered to the British and French Embassies with an explanation of our endeavor to stop Anderson's trip, which was entirely unauthorized.

Whether or not we should immediately call Anderson home I am not so sure, but I think we should do something to prevent his being able to do anything further which might involve us in difficulties with the Allies. I shall be very glad for your suggestions.

Faithfully yours,
Robert Lansing

Enclosure:2261, Dec. 19.

Pontarlier.


The President.

Original Format

Letter

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/WWI0901.pdf

Collection

World War I Letters

Citation

Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928, “Robert Lansing to Woodrow Wilson,” 1917 December 22, WWP22167, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.