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WILSON, WOODROW. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to William Bayard
Hale, declining an interview with former German Secretary of State for Colonial Affairs
Bernhard Dernburg. 1 page, 4to, White House stationery, with integral blank; horizontal
fold. (TFC)
Washington, 19 December 1914
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. . . I should decline interviews with any special agent of either side in the present struggle in
Europe, for I am diligently and . . . consistently maintaining an aloofness and impartiality in
the matter which I cannot venture to depart from.”