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with his colleagues, and at our luncheon next Wednesday another step for ward
will be made.
I feel that my visit has been justified even if nothing more is done than
that already accomplished. It is difficult for me to realize that the dream
I had last year is beginning to come true. I have seen the Kaiser, and now
the British Government seem eager to carry on the discussion. It is hard to
realize, too, that every government in the world may be more or less affected
by the moves we are making and every human being may be concerned in the deci-
sions reached from day to day.
I told Sir Edward the Kaiser had said when his name was mentioned that,
he, Sir Edward, had never been on the Continent and therefore could not under-
stand Germany. Sir Edward replied that while this was not literally true, it
was nearly so; a great many years ago he went to India and crossed the Conti-
nent of Europe, though practically without stopping, and the other day he was
in Paris with the King for several days.
He asked if I had gone to Ascot yesterday, and when I said I had not,
he replied, "I, too, have dodged it for fifty-two years". He impresses me as
a quiet and dignified statesman who is more intent upon serving his country
than upon any success that may come to him.
I went to dinner at Robert Flemin�s at 27 Grosvenor Square. Sir
George Paish of the Statist, and Frank Trumbull were the other other guests.
Paish and I did most of the talking. I obtained a lot of valuable statisti-
cal information from him. Great Britain's income from her foreign investments
is one thousand million dollars per year, her total wealth is seventeen bil-
lion pounds. The total wealth of Germany is sixteen billion pounds and France
has only about ten or twelve billions, and the United States more than thirty
billion pounds.
I asked why France was considered such a rich nation--so much richer
than her neighbor Germany, and with so much more money to lend. He said <del>he</del>
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with his colleagues, and at our luncheon next Wednesday another step for ward
will be made.
I feel that my visit has been justified even if nothing more is done than
that already accomplished. It is difficult for me to realize that the dream
I had last year is beginning to come true. I have seen the Kaiser, and now
the British Government seem eager to carry on the discussion. It is hard to
realize, too, that every government in the world may be more or less affected
by the moves we are making and every human being may be concerned in the deci-
sions reached from day to day.
I told Sir Edward the Kaiser had said when his name was mentioned that,
he, Sir Edward, had never been on the Continent and therefore could not under-
stand Germany. Sir Edward replied that while this was not literally true, it
was nearly so; a great many years ago he went to India and crossed the Conti-
nent of Europe, though practically without stopping, and the other day he was
in Paris with the King for several days.
He asked if I had gone to Ascot yesterday, and when I said I had not,
he replied, "I, too, have dodged it for fifty-two years". He impresses me as
a quiet and dignified statesman who is more intent upon serving his country
than upon any success that may come to him.
I went to dinner at Robert Flemin�s at 27 Grosvenor Square. Sir
George Paish of the Statist, and Frank Trumbull were the other other guests.
Paish and I did most of the talking. I obtained a lot of valuable statisti-
cal information from him. Great Britain's income from her foreign investments
is one thousand million dollars per year, her total wealth is seventeen bil-
lion pounds. The total wealth of Germany is sixteen billion pounds and France
has only about ten or twelve billions, and the United States more than thirty
billion pounds.
I asked why France was considered such a rich nation--so much richer
than her neighbor Germany, and with so much more money to lend. He said |
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