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In precipitating this controversy with Congress and by making the situation
so acute with Germany, I feel that the President and Lansing have largely in-
terfered with my efforts abroad. If they had held the situation quiescent as
I urged them to do, I am sure my plan for intervention by the United States to
end the war would have gone through without trouble. I am deeply disappointed,
but I hope matters can be ironed out in a way to yet make the plan possible.
Yesterday a fears one storm fell upon us with such fury that we were
compelled to lay to for ten hours. The snow fell so thickly and the wind was
so high that it was necessary to <sic>heave</sic> to and ride the storm out. Home which
looked so near last night seems distant this morning. Many shipwrecks must
have occurred for it takes a staunch vessel to weather such a storm.
New York,
March 5, 1916.
We arrived in the lower harbor this morning around noon. I had an early
lunch and at one o'clock a revenue cutter signaled to the Rotterdam to stop.
Gordon and Dudley Malone were on the boat and they took Loulie and me off. On
our way to the Navy Yard Club Pier, Dudley had time to give me an outline of the
situation, both national and local. He remained with me most of the day.
I telephoned to Washington and found the President was not expecting me
until morning, and had gone away for Sunday on the Mayflower. I therefore
concluded to take the midnight instead of the Congressional Limited, and Dud-
ley insisted upon sending one of his men along to protect the papers I was car-
rying.
I found a letter from the German Ambassador asking for an appointment.
Acting upon the President's advice I ignored it, although my judgment was
that it would be better to see him before I went to Washington rather than
afterward, since in the one case I would supposedly know nothing of the sit-
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v4_098 |
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In precipitating this controversy with Congress and by making the situation
so acute with Germany, I feel that the President and Lansing have largely in-
terfered with my efforts abroad. If they had held the situation quiescent as
I urged them to do, I am sure my plan for intervention by the United States to
end the war would have gone through without trouble. I am deeply disappointed,
but I hope matters can be ironed out in a way to yet make the plan possible.
Yesterday a fears one storm fell upon us with such fury that we were
compelled to lay to for ten hours. The snow fell so thickly and the wind was
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