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Mr. Wilson next says that this affair " only deepens

a feeling that was growing upon me. While we were still in Paris I felt, and have felt increasingly ever since, that you accepted my guidance and direction . . . only with increasing reluctance, and since my return to Washington I have been struck by the number of matters in which you have apparently tried to forestall my judgnient by formulating action and simply asking my approval when it was impossible for me to form an independent judgment." The President ends by saying that he accepts Mr. Lansing's resignation.

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