Microfilm Reel 195, File 64, "Russia"

The Chicago Daily News' Foreign News Staff

Many years before the outbreak of the Great War The Chicago Daily News instituted its foreign news service, which today is writing this important chapter in the world's history as it will not be written again. The staff is the most efficient news gathering force maintained abroad by any newspaper. The correspondents composing it were recruited with the idea of securing the most complete, trustworthy and timely service from the posts to which they were assigned.

When the "Big Story" broke The Daily News' foreign news service was waiting and ready to report it. From tangled threads of intrigue and suspense which preceded the actual conffict to the settled struggle which is now being waged over hundreds of miles of battle lines no important phase of the story has escaped these reporters of history. They have made the issues of The Chicago Daily News since the war began perhaps the most satisfying record now in existence of the happenings, great and small, which have given the war its extraordinary character.

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Washington, D. C., June 12, 1918.

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Honorable Woodrow Wilson, The White House, Washington, D. C.

[stamp: ACK'D JUN 13 1918 C.L.S.

Dear Mr. President:

Mr. Henry W. Anderson, Red Cross Commissioner to Roumania, has just returned to Washington. He was in Roumania seven months, did much good work there, was seven weeks passing through Russia enroute home, thence to England and France.

He has apparently made a thorough study of conditions in Russia and of the Russian people, and the situation generally in that part of the world. He is a lawyer from Richmond, Virginia, # of apparently sound judgment, and has decided views and opinions about the conditions in Russia and what should be done.

You may be aware of everything which he has to say and any suggestions from him might be superfluous, but Mr. Davison is anxious for you to have the benefit of the impressions which Mr. Anderson has gathered, and I concur, if for no other reason than as additional evidence as to what is best to be done about Russia, and because Mr. Davison and the other members of the Red Cross War Council feel keenly that you should hear what Mr. Anderson has to say.

It will take him twenty minutes to tell you, or it can be reduced to writing. Awaiting your entire pleasure,

Sincerely yours, Jesse H. Jones

JHJ/me

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