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In order to cheer them, I averred that British Navy was always one or two
laps ahead of the Germans, and that was why there was no German commerce upon the
high seas and their fleet lay bottled up. I asked George why the French did
not give the English the coast to hold, and why they injected themselves between.
He did not know unless it was that the French were suspicious and the British once
there might want to remain. He thought it a mistake. He said the English were
like <del/> a walrus or a seafowl, they liked one wing in the water. They did
not know what to do in the interior, but if they could flap one wing in the dear
old ocean occasionally, no power on earth could dispossess them.
He gave his estimate of the different British commanders, and we discussed
the question of munitions, artillery, the possibility of breaking through, etc. etc.
They were interested to know that I considered Falkenhayn the ablest man now di-
recting the land forces of the Central Powers, and I enlarged upon the advantages
the Germans had over the Allies by their single minded direction.
Later we fell to talking of the commanders in our Civil War. They consider-
ed Lee and Jackson easily the first in point of ability. I told them of the block-
ade in the South, and how it was run as I recalled it as a little child when my
father owned jointly with the Confederate Government, certain ships that went out
from Galveston, he having the outgoing cargo of cotton, and the Confederate Govern-
ment having the incoming <sic>cargoe</sic> of munitions and supplies.
Lloyd George dropped me at my hotel around eleven o'clock. My letters
and cables to the President of the past few days are parts of the diary.
February 12, 1916.
Sir Horace Plunkett called this morning very much disturbed about the dis-
arming of merchantmen. I argued the question from Lansing's viewpoint, but ask-
ed him to formulate some suggestion fair to all and I would discuss it with him
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v4_068 |
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In order to cheer them, I averred that British Navy was always one or two
laps ahead of the Germans, and that was why there was no German commerce upon the
high seas and their fleet lay bottled up. I asked George why the French did
not give the English the coast to hold, and why they injected themselves between.
He did not know unless it was that the French were suspicious and the British once
there might want to remain. He thought it a mistake. He said the English were
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