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itself.
Justice Lamar reported that the Argentine Ambassador would probably return
tomorrow. He has promised to telephone in the morning <add>and give</add> definite information.
When I reported to the President upon the day's work he was cordial and
generous in his thanks.
There were no visitors at dinner. After dinner he read for awhile. We
again discussed the Senate and their rejection of appointments. I brought to
him the request of one of the editors of the Delineator to write an article for
that magazine giving a word to the mothers of the country that they were not
rearing their sons to be ruthlessly slaughtered without any high purpose to be
accomplished. He said while he sympathized thoroughly with that sentiment,
it was difficult to write such an article. He could not bring himself to ex-
press his emotion coldly in writing; that it was something that welled up from
the heart to be said <del/> at the moment, and not ground out.
We then went into a general discussion of science and religion, he doing
practically all the talking. It was an illuminating discourse. He contended
there was no borderland of science now, that one science had merged itself into
another so there was a general continuity, and to understand one it was necessary,
in a way, to have an understanding of all.
December 19, 1914.
During my talk with the British Ambassador yesterday, he said Villa was
alarmed lest, when the Constitutionalists came into power, the British Govern-
ment would have a reckoning with him because of the Benton murder. Spring-Rice
is sending him reassuring messages to the effect that if he conducted himself
right, and upheld the law in Mexico, he would be forgiven. The Ambassador
wished to know if we would regard it as a good thing to have Carranza gotten
out of Mexico. I replied that we would be delighted. He promised to try to
bring it about, and thought it could be done, provided we would insure his safe-
ty.
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Justice Lamar reported that the Argentine Ambassador would probably return
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