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The Waldorf Astoria Hotel
34th St. and Fifth Ave.,
New York City.

[shorthand]
[Rubber stamp: ACK'D JUN 24 1918 T ? ?]

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June 22. 1918.

His Excellency, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States.
Washington, D.C.

Your Excellency:

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Permit me to thank you for your letter
in reply to mine, in which I asked "whether 8 propaganda
conducted by me, in a private capacity, in Siberia, would
in any way interfere with the ideas or intentions of the
Administration."

In your Excellency's reply you state that
Strangers might not be welcome in an undertaking of this
sort, I am afraid, under the circumstances, that I did
not make myself sufficiently clear, As I am a Russian sub-
ject and represented my country for fourteen years as Vice-
Corsul in Chicago.

It was because of my Nationality and knowledge
of my own people that I was prompted to entertain the idea
of going at my own expense to help the Allied cause.

It was because of my Nationality and knowledge
of my own people that I was prompted to entertain the idea
of going at my own expense to help the Allied cause.
I feel that whosoever undertakes guch a pro-
paganda must employ Russians to do the actual work, as both
the mentality of the Moujik and the means of communication
with a limited press, can only be properly understood by
a Russian,

repeat to your Excellency that I am pre-
pared to undertake this purely in a patriotic way with the
hope of enlightening my poor benighted countrymen as to the
malevolent intention of the Germans.

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