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as Belgium and Serbia were to resist the Germans. If Great Britain and
Japan wished to combine against us they could pretend to be conveying Japanese
troops through Canada to France, and in this way we could not know just what
they were doing or how many men were in Canada.
I believe the President will pull through without anything happening, but
I could not sleep at night if I had this responsibility upon my shoulders and
had not properly met it. The European countries are just as well aware of our
condition as we are ourselves. The greatest security for peace <sic>atthis</sic> time
would be complete preparedness for war. If Great Britain and Russia had kept
pace with Germany in military affairs, this war could not have happened because
Germany would never have attempted to bring it about.
<del/> I told the President what Daniels said, and I urged him not to
place our country in the position where we should either have to back down or
fight the Allies. The trouble is the President does not know what is going on
in any of the departments. He does not follow their work and has an idea that
every department of the Government is running smoothly and well. As a matter
of fact, most of them are, but a few are <del/> inefficient. I have com-
plained of this from the beginning of his administration. He could remedy it
easily if he would go at it in the right way.
Domestic legislation is the President's forts. No one has ever done that
better or perhaps so well. But as an administrator he is a failure, and it
is only because of a generally efficient Cabinet that things go as well as
they do.
I dislike to record this criticism of the President because he is one
of the great men of the world today, but he sadly lacks administrative ability.
After the dinner Tuesday the different Cabinet officials took me aside
for talks. Lansing is disturbed over the foreign situation. He also wished
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as Belgium and Serbia were to resist the Germans. If Great Britain and
Japan wished to combine against us they could pretend to be conveying Japanese
troops through Canada to France, and in this way we could not know just what
they were doing or how many men were in Canada.
I believe the President will pull through without anything happening, but
I could not sleep at night if I had this responsibility upon my shoulders and
had not properly met it. The European countries are just as well aware of our
condition as we are ourselves. The greatest security for peace |
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