Office of the Historian

Robert Lansing Papers: Telegram

The Secretary of State to the Acting Secretary of State

[Henderson Harbor, N. Y.?]
September 15, 1919—8 p.m.

Personal and Confidential for Phillips: No Distribution in Department. You may advise Senator Hitchcock of the following: That I have refused to make any comment upon Bullitt’s statements94 but that I believe that the important question at issue is the ratification or nonratification of the treaty, that I am strongly in favor of immediate ratification of the treaty without modifications as the whole world demands the restoration of peace.

[File copy not signed]
  1. William C. Bullitt had testified, on September 12, before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. See Treaty of Peace with Germany: Hearings Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate … Senate Document No. 106, 66th Cong., 1st sess. (Washington, Government Printing Office, 1919). p. 1161.↩