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He had tried to keep it back till the very end of the session, etc. This does not quite correspond with what the President told me--that the State Department asked for this retaliatory resolution. I made specific suggestions in my statement to the President and to Lansing.
They have (yet) said nothing about them.
I fancy they will not. I have found nowhere any policy--only "cases." I proposed to Baker and Daniels that they send a General and an Admiral as attaches to London.
They both agreed.
Daniels later told me that Baker mentioned it to the President and he "stepped on the suggestion with both feet." I did not bring it up.
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