Woodrow Wilson to Robert Lansing
Title
Woodrow Wilson to Robert Lansing
Creator
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924
Identifier
WWP25496
Date
1918 November 18
Description
President Wilson asks the Secretary of State to pass on the message to Colonel House that the French should stop their censorship of the press now.
Source
Library of Congress, Woodrow Wilson Papers
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
World War, 1914-1918--United States
Freedom of the press -- United State
Contributor
Danna Faulds
Language
English
Provenance
Document scan was taken from Library of Congress microfilm reel of the Wilson Papers. WWPL volunteers transcribed the text.
Text
CONFIDENTIAL
My dear Mr. Secretary:
Will you not be kind enough to have the following message coded and sent to Mr. House at Paris as promptly as possible?
“Please express to the French and British authorities our hope and expectation that they will entirely remove the present political censorship upon American press dispatches. Now that the argument of military necessity no longer obtains, there can be no good reason why the character of the political information supplied to our people should be determined by the British and French Governments, and there is danger of a very serious revulsion of feeling on this side of the water, if such a censorship is continued. I hope that you will press the matter very earnestly and very promptly.”
Faithfully yours,
[Woodrow Wilson]
Hon. Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State.
My dear Mr. Secretary:
Will you not be kind enough to have the following message coded and sent to Mr. House at Paris as promptly as possible?
“Please express to the French and British authorities our hope and expectation that they will entirely remove the present political censorship upon American press dispatches. Now that the argument of military necessity no longer obtains, there can be no good reason why the character of the political information supplied to our people should be determined by the British and French Governments, and there is danger of a very serious revulsion of feeling on this side of the water, if such a censorship is continued. I hope that you will press the matter very earnestly and very promptly.”
Faithfully yours,
[Woodrow Wilson]
Hon. Robert Lansing,
Secretary of State.
Original Format
Letter
To
Lansing, Robert, 1864-1928
Files
Collection
Citation
Wilson, Woodrow, 1856-1924, “Woodrow Wilson to Robert Lansing,” 1918 November 18, WWP25496, World War I Letters, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.