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a billion dollars to England's wealth, and that untold millions will be saved
because of the simple lives people will lead from now.
Just here, he remarked, it was America that had set the pace for extrava-
gance, and Europe had merely followed our lead. This may or may not be true,
but I told him I had known small towns in the United States to be almost wholly
changed in their social life by the advent of one family, setting a <del/> faster
pace than the people had been wont to follow, and it might be true that we had
done this for Europe.
I tried to scare him as I have others regarding Russia making a sepa-
rate peace and the sequences following. He thought if the United States would
stand by Great Britain, the entire world could not shake the combined mastery
we would hold over the seas. In this he is probably right.
In speaking of peace <sic>teras</sic>, I proposed stopping the manufacture of
munitions for a certain period, and the governments taking over all <sic>munition</sic>
plants. He seized upon this as a practical idea, and one which would better
meet the requirements of the situation than any he had heard proposed.
I gave them an estimate of the President and of his capacity for
staying "put", of his courage and of his statesmanship. I desired to let them
know the manner of man they have to deal with. I spoke of the Pope and of
how impossible it would be for him to act as mediator. I explained the Mex-
ican situation and of how steadfast the President was in his purpose not to
permit Germany to draw us into war with that country. If the President
should propose mediation George thought each belligerent government would ob-
ject, but would soon be brought to accept by public opinion.
It was laughable to hear him declare that militarism must go and in the
same breath say Great Britain must retain the supremacy of the seas. I en-
deavored to convince him that this was impossible, and the one would have to go
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v4_022 |
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a billion dollars to England's wealth, and that untold millions will be saved
because of the simple lives people will lead from now.
Just here, he remarked, it was America that had set the pace for extrava-
gance, and Europe had merely followed our lead. This may or may not be true,
but I told him I had known small towns in the United States to be almost wholly
changed in their social life by the advent of one family, setting a |
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