Frank I. Cobb to Woodrow Wilson

Title

Frank I. Cobb to Woodrow Wilson

Creator

Frank I. Cobb

Identifier

WWP21892

Date

1917 August 27

Source

Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers, 1786-1957

Text

TELEGRAM.534pm
X5WU XA 141.

WU. NEW YORK, August 27, 1917.
THE PRESIDENT.


Dear Mr. President

The afternoon papers print a dispatch from Washington stating that evidence is in the possession of the State Department showing that Germany planned to make war against the United States after crushing France and Great Britain. Secretary Lansing is reported to have confirmed the statement of Lord Robert Cecil that there had been such a plot. If such evidence is in the State Department its publication would have an enormous effect upon the public sentiment in this country, both in breaking down opposition to the war and spurring the public to new endeavors. Will you permit me to suggest that it ought to printed as soon as possible and that all other evidence in the archives of the State Department showing a policy of settled hostility to the United States on the part of Germany be made public.

Sincerely yours,
Frank I. Cobb.

To

Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924

Files

http://resources.presidentwilson.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/WWI0651.pdf

Collection

World War I Letters

Citation

Frank I. Cobb, “Frank I. Cobb to Woodrow Wilson,” 1917 August 27, WWP21892, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.