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placing the President in a false position. He was exceedingly friendly and
insisted whenever I returned to let him know immediately.
I had Page, St Loe Strachey and A. H. Pollen for lunch. We had a de-
lightful time. The conversation was upon literary and general topics. Page,
Pollen and Strachey were at their best, and I believe they enjoyed the lunch as
much as I did. After lunch Page took me aside to show me a cable he was think-
ing of sending the President regarding the United States coming into the war.
It was a fine literary effort. He expressed himself forcefully and well. It
was a stirring message and I told him so. He asked what I thought the Pres-
ident would do. I thought it would have no effect as to the real purpose he
desired, but it would probably make the President careful not to do <add><gap reason=�illegible�></add> of the
things against Great Britain which <del>perhaps</del> he was contemplating.
Wolcott of the Rockefeller Foundation, who has been in Poland for
some six weeks, tells a tragic story of conditions there. I shall not go in-
to it for it will be better and more completely written of elsewhere.
Robert Donald of the Chronicle took tea with me. I thanked him for
the editorials he has been writing in behalf of the President, and the good
advice he was giving England as to Anglo-American questions. I promised to
keep his representative in America upon the right track, provided he would have
him keep in touch with me. <add>Donald</add> <del>He</del> has been doing splendid work since my first
talk with him soon after I arrived in England.
Spender of the Westminster Gazette followed. Our conversation was
largely along the lines I had followed with Donald.
Last night I told the Prime Minister and the others who were at Reading's
dinner, that one of the most beneficial things they could do would be to get the
Metropolitan Press to change their tone in regard to Germany. These papers
have considerable circulation in Germany, and when I undertook to tell the
German Government and people that Great Britain did not desire to crush Germany
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placing the President in a false position. He was exceedingly friendly and
insisted whenever I returned to let him know immediately.
I had Page, St Loe Strachey and A. H. Pollen for lunch. We had a de-
lightful time. The conversation was upon literary and general topics. Page,
Pollen and Strachey were at their best, and I believe they enjoyed the lunch as
much as I did. After lunch Page took me aside to show me a cable he was think-
ing of sending the President regarding the United States coming into the war.
It was a fine literary effort. He expressed himself forcefully and well. It
was a stirring message and I told him so. He asked what I thought the Pres-
ident would do. I thought it would have no effect as to the real purpose he
desired, but it would probably make the President careful not to do |
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