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New York, April 15, 1917.

THE PRESIDENT.

"Residence of Hon. Joseph H. Choate, Eight East 63rd street, New York".
On behalf of Messrs. Edwin A. Alderman, Henry J. Allen, Robert Bacon,
Albert C. Burrage, Nicholas Murray Butler, Joseph H. Choate, Chauncey M.
Depew, Chas. V. Eliot, Robert Ewing, Geo. W. Fairchild, Charles R. Flint,
Lyman J. Gage, Jas. W. Gerard, Sam’l Gompers, Myron T. Herrick, John Grier
Hibben, W. T. Hildrup, Jr., David Jayne Hill, Clark Howell, Charles Evans
Hughes, R. S. Lovett, Theodore Marburg, S. Stanwood Menken, Franklin Murphy,
T. J. Obrien, Alton B. Parker, Geo. Haven Putnam, Chester P. Rowell, Jacob
Schiff, Geo. Sutherland, Geo. Edgar Vincent, William M. Wood, The American
committee for the encouragement of democratic goverment in Russia, at whose
suggestion twenty two states of the American Union have already sent formal
messages of congratulation and sympathy to the new goverment of Russia,
we respectfully urge that at this critical moment there be dispatched to
Russia a commission thoroughly representative of all elements in American
life to convey to the provisional goverment an expression of the congraturat-
ions and sympathy of the American people, and to confer with that goverment
as to the most effective ways and means of securing complete cooperation
between Russia and the United States in the prosecution of the war for civil
liberty and human justice, in which they are both so earnestly engaged.

Charles R. Flint,
Chairman.

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