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talk with him concerning Chile's attitude toward the Pan-American Peace Pact. I
extracted some information from him, and I found the situation better than I had
thought. The trouble has been with Ambassador Suarez and not with the newly
elected Chilean officials. Suarez is to be removed and a new Ambassador appointed.
I told Fletcher I would ask the President to delegate him to the task of acceler-
ating the pact, and have Lansing direct him to take up the work at once. He
is to report to Lansing and keep in touch with me. This, I think, is the easi-
est way to accomplish our purpose without hurting Lansing's sensibilities, and I
have so written the President.
When I first suggested the plan, I accomplished within a week nearly all
the work that has so far been done. If I had had two weeks longer before going
to Europe, and had not been handicapped by Secretary Bryan, I am reasonably sure
it would have been finished by now.
Fletcher agreed to forget everything said to him upon the subject by me.
and to hear of it for the first time when Lansing approached him.
Dr. Grayson and his fiancee took dinner with us and afterward we took them
to see Mrs. Fiske in "Erstwhile Susan".
April 1, 1916.
I was able to take up my correspondence today, although interrupted fre-
quently by callers and the telephone.
Mrs. Borden Harriman came in the morning, and in the afternoon Frank Polk,
H. D. Heineman, Charles R. Crane and Jas. H. Skinner called. Polk and I went
over the domestic situation in so far as it related to foreign affairs. I told
Polk of the agreement I had made in Paris and London. He was interested and be-
gan to understand for the first time how anxious the President was not to break
with the Central Powers. However, he thought that unless he acted now as the
situation demanded, he would lose all influence both at home and abroad and the
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v4_126 |
| Transcript | talk with him concerning Chile's attitude toward the Pan-American Peace Pact. I extracted some information from him, and I found the situation better than I had thought. The trouble has been with Ambassador Suarez and not with the newly elected Chilean officials. Suarez is to be removed and a new Ambassador appointed. I told Fletcher I would ask the President to delegate him to the task of acceler- ating the pact, and have Lansing direct him to take up the work at once. He is to report to Lansing and keep in touch with me. This, I think, is the easi- est way to accomplish our purpose without hurting Lansing's sensibilities, and I have so written the President. When I first suggested the plan, I accomplished within a week nearly all the work that has so far been done. If I had had two weeks longer before going to Europe, and had not been handicapped by Secretary Bryan, I am reasonably sure it would have been finished by now. Fletcher agreed to forget everything said to him upon the subject by me. and to hear of it for the first time when Lansing approached him. Dr. Grayson and his fiancee took dinner with us and afterward we took them to see Mrs. Fiske in "Erstwhile Susan". April 1, 1916. I was able to take up my correspondence today, although interrupted fre- quently by callers and the telephone. Mrs. Borden Harriman came in the morning, and in the afternoon Frank Polk, H. D. Heineman, Charles R. Crane and Jas. H. Skinner called. Polk and I went over the domestic situation in so far as it related to foreign affairs. I told Polk of the agreement I had made in Paris and London. He was interested and be- gan to understand for the first time how anxious the President was not to break with the Central Powers. However, he thought that unless he acted now as the situation demanded, he would lose all influence both at home and abroad and the |
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