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CABLEGRAM.

The White House,
Washington.

WU 47 CO VT 190-189 Govt.

Petrograd (Received April 10, 1917, 9:20 a.m.)

His Excellency, Mr. Woodrow Wilson,
President United States,
Washington.

In answer to Your Excellency's message I am happy, in the name of the
Provisional Government and of the Russian democracy, newly liberated from
secular oppression, ^the oppression of centuries^ to send our congratulations on account of your magnificent
action in declaring state of war between United States and Germany. We all
enthusiastically greet the momentous decision which brought the great democracy
of the new world to the side of the justice of right, of liberty of small
nations against only remnants of theocratic and paternal autocracy and of
agressive militarism. We firmly believe that the cause we all fight for will
win and that our victory over forces of the past will be accelerated by your

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