ILIST OF PAPERS



                          THE WORLD WAR:
                PERIOD OF AMERICAN NEUTRALITY
RELATIONS WITH GERMANY AND AUSTRIA-HUNGARY-GERMAN SUBMARINE
  WARFARE--SEVERANCE OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS AND OUTBREAK OF WAR
  WITHa GERMANY-Continued



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The German Foreign Office to the German Embassy
  Reports that submarine warfare has been modified to meet
American wishes and suggests that steps be taken to establish
freedom of the seas.
To President Wilson
  Encloses memorandum of interview with the German Am-
bassador on January 10.
To Colonel E. M1. House (tel.)
  Reports progress in the Lusitania negotiations.
To Colonel E. Ml. House (tel.)
  Believes that favorable action in the case of the L iisitania is
probable.
From the German Ambassador
  Encloses two drafts of memoranda from    the German
Embassy to the Department of State constituting proposed
settlement of the submarine warfare controversy and the
Lusitanza case.
To President Wilson
  Opinion that neither of the two German drafts is satisfactory.
From President Wilson
  Agrees that proposed German settlement of the Lusitania
case is unsatisfactory.
From President Wilson
  Opinion that Ambassador Gerard ought to be fully informed
regarding the progress of the Lusitznia negotiations.
To President Wilson
  Encloses memorandum (text printed) of a conference with
the German Ambassador at which the proposals for settlement
of the Lusitania case were discussed.
Memorandum by the Secretary of State of a Conversation With the
    German Ambassador, January 26, 1916
  Presentation by the German Ambassador of another memo-
randum outlining a formula for settlement of the Lusitania case.
Secretary Lansing stated that he regarded this memorandum
also as unsatisfactory. Suggestion by Secretary Lansing of
certain changes in the proposed memorandum.
To the Ambassador in Germany (tel.)
  Informs Ambassador Gerard and Colonel House of progress
of the Lusitania negotiations and transmits memorandum sub-
mitted by the German Ambassador in his conversation with
Secretary Lansing on January 26. Expresses belief that if the
German Government agrees to memorandum the Lusitania case
will be satisfactorily ended.
Draft Note to the German Ambassador
   Note proposed for, use in case of entire failure of informal
negotiations on the Lusitania case.



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