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one other whose name I did not catch.
July 1, 1914.
It is very warm and I canceled all engagements and spent the day in the
Park, reading and trying to keep cool. The thermometer registered 88 to 90 in
the shade.
July 2, 1914.
We lunched with the Prime Minister and Mrs. Asquith today. The other guests
were Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, H. J. Whigham, President of the Metropolitan Magazine
and Town and Country, of New York, and others. There were twelve in all at the
table.
After the ladies left the table, Asquith asked me to come and sit by him
so that we might talk, which we did earnestly for fifteen or twenty minutes. I
did nearly all the talking. We first discussed the merits of Cabinet officers
sitting in Parliament or Congress, as the case may be. He thought there were ad-
vantages and disadvantages on both sides. I expressed the feeling that it was
better they should have seats, and he <del>was</del> also <add>was</add> inclined to this view. I spoke of
the powers of a President and of a Prime Minister, showing wherein the one differ-
ed from the other. I felt very much at home in London now, for the reason that
his Government was being abused in exactly the same terms and by the same sort of
people who were abusing the Wilson Administration in the United States. This amus-
ed him. I thought the purposes of the Liberal Government and of the Democratic Par
ty were quite similar; that we were striving for the same end, but if the Conser-
vatives of the two countries had their way, the end would probably be that many
of them would be stripped of their wealth and hanged to lamp-posts. He agreed to
this.
I spoke of Germany and how its industrial and military systems were co-re-
lated. I was curious to see what the end would be. Big business in Germany de-
sired a great military organization, and the military organization in turn was
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one other whose name I did not catch.
July 1, 1914.
It is very warm and I canceled all engagements and spent the day in the
Park, reading and trying to keep cool. The thermometer registered 88 to 90 in
the shade.
July 2, 1914.
We lunched with the Prime Minister and Mrs. Asquith today. The other guests
were Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, H. J. Whigham, President of the Metropolitan Magazine
and Town and Country, of New York, and others. There were twelve in all at the
table.
After the ladies left the table, Asquith asked me to come and sit by him
so that we might talk, which we did earnestly for fifteen or twenty minutes. I
did nearly all the talking. We first discussed the merits of Cabinet officers
sitting in Parliament or Congress, as the case may be. He thought there were ad-
vantages and disadvantages on both sides. I expressed the feeling that it was
better they should have seats, and he |
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