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I forgot to say that I asked Sir Cecil why he thought I might have been the
immediate although unconscious cause of this war. I told him the suspicion had
crossed my mind, and I was wondering how he had reasoned it out. He said I had
come so near making a general war impossible that the war party in Berlin and Vienna
had become alarmed. They probably knew why I was in Berlin and what I had said to
the Kaiser. They also probably knew why I went to England, and they undoubtedly
knew the contents of my letter to the Kaiser. That, together with Sir Edward Grey's
conversations with the German Ambassador in London, which were started after I dis-
cussed the subject with him, alarmed the war party and they took advantage of the
Archduke's murder and the Kaiser's absence, to precipitate matters, believing they
were coming to the end of the passage, and that it was, as Sir Cecil expressed it,
"now or never".
September 24, 1914.
Arthur Page came the other day and I gave him the details of the arrangement
the President, Mr. Dodge and I made to supplement his father's salary. I wanted
him to know about it, and I did not want him to mention it to his father or anyone
else. My purpose was that if Arthur approved, his father could not very well ob-
ject later when he found where the money came from. I suppose Page is getting
up a statement of his income since Arthur told me he had written to him concern-
ing some matters which indicate this.
I have had a great many callers, but one of importance excepting Attorney
General Gregory, who spent the day yesterday with me. He is having <sic>touble</sic> with
McAdoo about an appointment of a marshal for New York. I hope there will be no
serious difficulty between the two, for they have been fond of one another, and it
seems too bad they should fall out over an appointment just as McAdoo and McRey-
nolds did. Gregory is in the right as far as I can see.
The row over the McCall appointment for Marshal gives me no end of use-
less annoyance. Personal calls and telephone calls in regard to the matter and
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I forgot to say that I asked Sir Cecil why he thought I might have been the
immediate although unconscious cause of this war. I told him the suspicion had
crossed my mind, and I was wondering how he had reasoned it out. He said I had
come so near making a general war impossible that the war party in Berlin and Vienna
had become alarmed. They probably knew why I was in Berlin and what I had said to
the Kaiser. They also probably knew why I went to England, and they undoubtedly
knew the contents of my letter to the Kaiser. That, together with Sir Edward Grey's
conversations with the German Ambassador in London, which were started after I dis-
cussed the subject with him, alarmed the war party and they took advantage of the
Archduke's murder and the Kaiser's absence, to precipitate matters, believing they
were coming to the end of the passage, and that it was, as Sir Cecil expressed it,
"now or never".
September 24, 1914.
Arthur Page came the other day and I gave him the details of the arrangement
the President, Mr. Dodge and I made to supplement his father's salary. I wanted
him to know about it, and I did not want him to mention it to his father or anyone
else. My purpose was that if Arthur approved, his father could not very well ob-
ject later when he found where the money came from. I suppose Page is getting
up a statement of his income since Arthur told me he had written to him concern-
ing some matters which indicate this.
I have had a great many callers, but one of importance excepting Attorney
General Gregory, who spent the day yesterday with me. He is having |
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