851.731/118: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Special Representative ( House )

42. Your Number 114, November 16, 10 p.m. Following reply from the President:

“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.”

Lansing