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upon the question of treaty obligation, and his belief that he, the President, had
lifted international ethics to a high plane by his action in the Panama tolls ques-
tion.
I explained my plan about the backward nations and of how enthusiastically it
was received by the British Government, and how much they thought it would do to-
ward bringing about a better understanding between the great powers. I believed
if we had an opportunity to put this into effect, in all human probability, such a
war as this would not have occurred, because with the powers meeting at regular in-
tervals, and with such a concrete example of the good that might be accomplished by
concerted action, a conflagration such as was now going on would have been impossible
I am not giving our conversation in full for the reason I did not of the
talking, in order to explain the different phases of my European mission, and to
tell him of the public men I met abroad.
I brought up McCombs' ambition to be Ambassador to Mexico. He replied
that McCombs was not his friend and he did not want to appoint him; that he was not
fitted for the place as he did not speak Spanish or have any knowledge of the Span-
ish people. He thought he would offer the place to Paul Fuller, if he would take
it, since Fuller had all the necessary qualifications and had done well in his ne-
gotiations with Villa, and if he did as well with Carranza, he would ask him to
accept the place.
We went into the Mexican situation carefully and agreed that Villa is
the only man of force now in sight in Mexico. We are afraid Carranza is not equal
to the situation. He is letting Carranza know that he will not be recognized un-
less he maintains himself as he should, and non-recognition means failure.
We discussed the appointments of Gregory and McReynolds, news of
their confirmation having just reached us. The President believed Gregory would
be of much assistance in looking after Congressional affairs; he considered his
Cabinet weak in this direction, McAdoo and Burleson being the only ones with any
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| Transcript | upon the question of treaty obligation, and his belief that he, the President, had lifted international ethics to a high plane by his action in the Panama tolls ques- tion. I explained my plan about the backward nations and of how enthusiastically it was received by the British Government, and how much they thought it would do to- ward bringing about a better understanding between the great powers. I believed if we had an opportunity to put this into effect, in all human probability, such a war as this would not have occurred, because with the powers meeting at regular in- tervals, and with such a concrete example of the good that might be accomplished by concerted action, a conflagration such as was now going on would have been impossible I am not giving our conversation in full for the reason I did not of the talking, in order to explain the different phases of my European mission, and to tell him of the public men I met abroad. I brought up McCombs' ambition to be Ambassador to Mexico. He replied that McCombs was not his friend and he did not want to appoint him; that he was not fitted for the place as he did not speak Spanish or have any knowledge of the Span- ish people. He thought he would offer the place to Paul Fuller, if he would take it, since Fuller had all the necessary qualifications and had done well in his ne- gotiations with Villa, and if he did as well with Carranza, he would ask him to accept the place. We went into the Mexican situation carefully and agreed that Villa is the only man of force now in sight in Mexico. We are afraid Carranza is not equal to the situation. He is letting Carranza know that he will not be recognized un- less he maintains himself as he should, and non-recognition means failure. We discussed the appointments of Gregory and McReynolds, news of their confirmation having just reached us. The President believed Gregory would be of much assistance in looking after Congressional affairs; he considered his Cabinet weak in this direction, McAdoo and Burleson being the only ones with any |
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