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Cleveland H. Dodge generously offers to give as much as $25,000. a year toward
meeting them. The President was under the impression that Page was digging
into his principal to that extent. He was relieved to find that he was running
<sic>behin</sic> only $12,000. to $15,000. per year.
The President asked me to take the money from Dodge and lend it to Page,
taking his note therefore and afterward destroying the note. He said that he
and McAdoo had concluded this was the best way to reach the matter. I have con-
cluded to do it differently, as my letter to the President will indicate.
Yesterday Billy Phillips called. We talked of many matters relating to
the State Department. Curiously enough, he told me that in the event of Gov-
ernor Osborn's resignation as First Assistant Secretary of State, he believed a
better man than himself should be appointed. He thought the State Department
needed strengthening badly. I insisted if the President should appoint him,
he must accept. The President will probably desire to appoint him because it
will do away with Mr. Bryan suggesting someone else.
We went over consular and diplomatic affairs. I urged him to keep our
ambassadors and ministers better informed. I suggested some changes in the
Diplomatic Services which he promised to attend to upon his return to Washington.
I am dining tonight to meet Ambassador Dumba. I am laying plans to make my-
self persons <sic>grata</sic> to all the nations involved in this European war, so that my
services may be utilized to advantage and without objection in the event a pro-
per opportunity arrives. I have been assiduously working to this end ever since
the war broke loose. I do not believe in leaving things to chance, and then
attribute failure to lack of luck or opportunity. I am trying to think out in
advance the problems that the war will entail and the <sic>oblagations</sic> which will fall
upon this country, which I hope the President will properly meet.
September 6, 1914.
My letter to the President will explain my conversation with Dumba last
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Cleveland H. Dodge generously offers to give as much as $25,000. a year toward
meeting them. The President was under the impression that Page was digging
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