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April 23, 1914. T. W. Gregory and George W. Anderson of Boston lunched with me. I went over many matters of importance with Gregory. Loulie and I went in the evening to hear Lohengrin. We went to meet Baron and Baronne de Beyville, who sat in the box with us. April 24, 1914. Nothing of importance again today. Major Joseph Wheeler came to request that he be appointed Colonel of a volunteer regiment. I am getting many such requests. A cable from London comes from Commissioner Waldo who desires the same thing. I am receiving many letters from people, prominent and otherwise, offering their service to the Government. They show a wide patriotic feeling, although as a rule, the desire is to wear the badges and go as officers rather than as privates. That, of course, is the usual thing and is the reason the war spirit runs so high. I have a deep feeling for the ordinary private who undergoes the hardships and the dangers without thought or hope of notice. Ellery Sedgwick wires as follows: "Would the President desire the holding of an independent mass meeting in Boston to <sic>crystalize</sic> public opinion in definite support of his Mexico policy of restricting hostilities and localizing them. The war feeling here begins to run high and may turn sharply against the administration". I sent the following answer to Sedgwick: "I think your suggestion excellent and I hope you will carry it out. I am deciding the matter myself without passing it further for it should be done spontaneously. Many thanks." April 25, 1914. Robert Underwood Johnson asked me to see Senor and Senora Simonetti of Mexico City. He is a Huertaite and former anti-Maderoits and was driven out
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April 23, 1914.
T. W. Gregory and George W. Anderson of Boston lunched with me. I went over
many matters of importance with Gregory.
Loulie and I went in the evening to hear Lohengrin. We went to meet Baron
and Baronne de Beyville, who sat in the box with us.
April 24, 1914.
Nothing of importance again today. Major Joseph Wheeler came to request
that he be appointed Colonel of a volunteer regiment. I am getting many such
requests. A cable from London comes from Commissioner Waldo who desires the
same thing.
I am receiving many letters from people, prominent and otherwise, offering
their service to the Government. They show a wide patriotic feeling, although
as a rule, the desire is to wear the badges and go as officers rather than as
privates. That, of course, is the usual thing and is the reason the war spirit
runs so high. I have a deep feeling for the ordinary private who undergoes the
hardships and the dangers without thought or hope of notice.
Ellery Sedgwick wires as follows:
"Would the President desire the holding of an independent mass meeting
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