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Personal
ACK'D June: 26 1918 C.L.S

1465 BROADWAY
NEW YORK

Den Mr Prisident:-

I've watched for the past year
as your conduct of the Great War and your mag-
nificant leadership of the forces of World [?]
with deep personal and patriotic pride. I knew
you would do it! I wrote you the prediction a
year ago that your leadership of a War Administration
would be even greater than your Civil Record.

It has not only surpassed it - you have set
a new standard of world Statesmanship in the
Bredth of your fision and the perfect perception
of the meaning of the great struggle -

For the past six months I have been on
the [point] again & again of writing you my
imp;ressions that Russia [?] to do
so lest you might be in possesion of facts
which could change my own views if I
knew them -

I feel now that I must write you. I
may be wrong but I may be right a [very]