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He made it clear that mere democracies like France and the United States
could never take part in such a conference. His whole attitude was that war
was a royal sport to be indulged in by hereditary monarchs and concluded at their
will. He told Gerard he knew Germany was right because God was on their side,
and God would not <del/> be with them if they were wrong, and it was because God
was with them they had been enabled to win their victories.
I asked Gerard whether he was crazy or whether he was merely posing. He
thought the Kaiser looked badly and showed some indication of kidney trouble. In
this I think he is mistaken, for others have told me he is looking well.
The Chancellor desires me to see the Kaiser, and the Kaiser, I think,
wishes to see me, but the Army and Navy heads do not wish us to meet, so the
controversy is on. It is the purpose of the Army to keep the Kaiser out of
Berlin while I am here, knowing it would be impossible to prevent our meeting
otherwise. They need not worry for I have little more desire to meet the
Kaiser than von Tirpits, although I do not think of him in quite the same way.
I am wondering how long any part of the world will continue to be ruled
by such masters. Long ago in my inexperience I thought governments were con-
trolled by the great who were actuated solely by patriotic motives. Now that I
am playing the game with them I find that selfishness plays the major part. It
is <sic>apalling</sic> to me to see how heartless some are who are profiting in one way
or another by the war. I say this with knowledge, and I wish the world could
realize it. I feel like crying it from the housetops, but I dare not do so
as it would accomplish nothing, and would prevent my from trying to help the
poor bewildered pawns of the mighty.
January 28, 1916.
Joe Grew came in this morning with our Assistant Naval Attach� who is at-
tached to the Flying Corps. He had a weird story to tell which he asked me to
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He made it clear that mere democracies like France and the United States
could never take part in such a conference. His whole attitude was that war
was a royal sport to be indulged in by hereditary monarchs and concluded at their
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