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as the Earl would be dressed in that way. The President said, "Is that not like
British directness!" I shall not try to repeat what Kitchener said, but the most
interesting part was that he thought the war would probably be over in two years.
He also thought when the winter rains set in and the ground became soft, the Ger-
mans would not be able to handle their big guns. He told Squiers of a plan they
had of ripping open the German Zeppelins, if they should make a raid <add>up</add> on <sic>Engliand</sic>.
They attach long wires to aeroplanes with a sharp hook at the end, and it is their
purpose to fly with great rapidity over the Zeppelins, and let the hooks rip the
gas bags. This does not strike me as being feasible.
I thought when the Germans were driven back within their own borders, it would
be advisable for me to go there and urge the Kaiser to ask him, the President, to
mediate.
The President did not express an opinion one way or the other as to the
advisability of this excepting he thought the Kaiser would hesitate to admit de-
feat, which that would practically be doing.
He insisted upon our remaining longer, and asked me to come as often as
I could. He was exceedingly solicitous and affectionate, and promised to come
over to me at this week end if it was at all possible.
I was afraid I had given him a wrong impression concerning McAdoo and
some of the members of the Cabinet when I was talking to him the other night. I
did not believe any of them excepting Mr. Bryan were consciously candidates for
the Presidency, and that I had spoken perhaps with some exaggeration. He replied,
"We know one another so well that even if something is said in the course of a
conversation we did not quite mean, we each of us would understand it."
He expressed regret that the war had not been postponed for a little while
because he thought we might have prevented it.
We discussed the propriety of bringing Ambassador Herrick home. I advised
being careful and not to make him a martyr. He promised to avoid this, but thought
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as the Earl would be dressed in that way. The President said, "Is that not like
British directness!" I shall not try to repeat what Kitchener said, but the most
interesting part was that he thought the war would probably be over in two years.
He also thought when the winter rains set in and the ground became soft, the Ger-
mans would not be able to handle their big guns. He told Squiers of a plan they
had of ripping open the German Zeppelins, if they should make a raid |
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