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agreed upon by the President and Lansing as being satisfactory. He said Berns-
storff had stated privately in his cable that he did not believe the German Gov-
ernment could accept it. This was for the German Government's consumption, but,
I take it, it was not told to Lansing.
I asked Zimmermann to send me a letter outlining the objectionable sentenc-
es in the note, so I might take the matter up directly with the President by
cable when I reached Switzerland or Paris. Later in the day, he sent the let-
ter which is attached and which we cabled in full to the State Department, asking
that decision be reserved until I could cable more fully after leaving Germany.
Zimmermann today, and von Jagow yesterday, expressed their keen appreciation
of my endeavors to promote peace. I gave Zimmermann perhaps the most earnest
talk I have made to <add>any</add> German official<del/>, for the reason he seems able to rise to it.
I urged him not to allow his Government to do any of the petty things that irri-
tate other belligerents and which have no military value. I said Germany was
too great a nation to descend to such practices. That he was one of the states-
men who might lead his country into better paths. That there were statesmen in
America, Great Britain and in France who had high ideals and who were not actuated
by selfish motives, and it was to them and those like them in Germany that the
world must look <del>to</del> for higher and better statesmanship. If it were not done by
such men, our civilization would move backward rather than forward.
Zimmermann spoke in emphatic terms of what he called the "white races"
meaning Great Britain, Germany and America and he hoped like the Chancellor the
time would come when there might be a more sympathetic accord between them.
My cables and letters to the President, which will follow during the
next few days, will explain in more detail what was said concerning undersea war-
fare, and I shall not go into it here.
Zimmermann asked me to take up the question of better treatment for German
prisoners in Russia. He complained that our Ambassador <add>and Embassy staff</add> in Petrograd were not
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v4_044 |
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agreed upon by the President and Lansing as being satisfactory. He said Berns-
storff had stated privately in his cable that he did not believe the German Gov-
ernment could accept it. This was for the German Government's consumption, but,
I take it, it was not told to Lansing.
I asked Zimmermann to send me a letter outlining the objectionable sentenc-
es in the note, so I might take the matter up directly with the President by
cable when I reached Switzerland or Paris. Later in the day, he sent the let-
ter which is attached and which we cabled in full to the State Department, asking
that decision be reserved until I could cable more fully after leaving Germany.
Zimmermann today, and von Jagow yesterday, expressed their keen appreciation
of my endeavors to promote peace. I gave Zimmermann perhaps the most earnest
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