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officers of the Treasury Department. I have not taken up the matter
formally with the Navy Department, as I desired first to ascertain
your desires in the matter.
      Sincerely yours,
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        President Wilson to the Acting Secretary of State

                                WASHINGTON, November 6, 1914.
  MY DEAR MR. LANSING: I am so afraid of getting the delicate and
difficult questions arising in connection with our neutrality confused
or mishandled in any way that I am going to ask if you will not
have a conference with Secretary McAdoo and with Secretary Dan-
iels to effect very definite arrangements for cooperation between the
three departments in these matters. I think we cannot be too careful
in these things and I believe that these three departments ought
to keep in systematic touch with one another.
  I know that you will be willing to do this.
      Faithfully yours,
                                              WOODROW WILSON

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        President Wilson to the Acting Secretary of State

                                WASHINGTON, December 1, 1914.
  MY DEAR MR. LANSING: I would be very much obliged if you would
read the enclosed letter from Professor MUnsterberg and send me a
memorandum, if you would be so kind, of the answers and com-
ments that might be made upon his statements. Here at last is a
very definite summing up of the matters upon which German anti-
administration feeling in this country is being built up, and perhaps
it would be wise to take very serious notice of it. The case they make
out is prima faeie very plausible indeed.
      Cordially and sincerely yours,
                                             WOODROW WILSON
                            [Enclosure]
        Professor Hugo Miinsterberg to President Wilson

                          CAMBRIDGE, MASS., November 19, 1914.
  DEAR MR. PRESIDENT: A few days ago I wrote to you from New
York in reply to your very kind letter of November 10th that I begged
to postpone my reply until I reached my desk in Cambridge. Now
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