Robert Lansing to Woodrow Wilson

Before I left the city on Friday last I told you that I was having prepared a memorandum in regard to our grounds of complaint against Austria. Mr. Woolsey, the Solicitor for the Department has prepared such a memorandum and I enclose it herewith. We have not a very strong case against Austria so far as hostile acts are concerned. It seems to me that it comes down very largely to a matter of national safety in having at large and free to act a very considerable body of Austrian subjects in this country.