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Spring-Rice is subject to that makes Northcliffe so antagonistic. He suggest-
ed Asquith and Bryce, but I agreed with him that at this particular time there
was no need for anyone to come. I did this largely out of sympathy for the
Ambassador. He believes the United States need<add>s</add> propaganda in England to set
herself right much more than Great Britain needed propaganda here. He thought
the influence that had kept the two democracies at peace was the great good feel-
ing which the British workingman had for America-- a feeling which was now rapidly
disappearing.
He went back to the inevitable discussion of the President's failure to
say some word favorable to democracy which would express his sympathy for the
allied nations. We agreed that the royal families of Europe were almost unan-
imously for Germany and that Germany was the mainstay of monarchies. He tried
to tell me what would happen to the United States if the Allies lost or if we
lost the good will of the Allies. I replied that I was not so much concerned
about our future as I was the immediate situation which faced Great Britain if
the Germans instituted unbridled submarine warfare. If we went into the war,
and unbridled u-boat warfare was begun, the consequences might be disastrous not
alone for Great Britain but for all the allied powers. I was on safe ground
here for I saw I had hit the mark.
We got upon fine terms from then on and before he left he was enthusias-
tic over his visit and declared he would come over often<gap reason=�illegible�> <del/> in order to keep
in touch with me. He said it was impossible to keep in touch with the Pres-
ident through the State Department; that Grey had told him at one time to write
letters to the President direct but that was a dangerous practice and he had
persuaded his government to discontinue it.
I thought if the Allies would consent to peace parleys that, with our
added strength, they would get practically what they were contending for-- at
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v5_002 |
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Spring-Rice is subject to that makes Northcliffe so antagonistic. He suggest-
ed Asquith and Bryce, but I agreed with him that at this particular time there
was no need for anyone to come. I did this largely out of sympathy for the
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