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the prevailing error of all the belligerent governments. I thought it foolish
to underrate an antagonist.
Wille<add><gap reason=�illegible�></add>t, of the London Times, came for direction for future <sic>despatches</sic>.
Howden Smith, of the Evening Post, called for the same purpose; Miss Buel to
get letters from Hapgood; Cardeza, Ambassador Penfield's secretary, who has just
arrived from Vienna, to tell of conditions there. I summarize what he said in
a letter to the President.
William R. Willcox, Chairman of the Republican Committee, was a caller and
my letter to the President also explains his visit.
Captain Elia, of the Italian Navy, Edward Harding and several others
were visitors. Polk telephoned a resume of the day's doings in Washington. We
advise together at least once or twice each day and sometimes oftener. Malone
also keeps in touch with me and has expressed his intention of consulting with
me in futuer rather than with Washington, since he gets little satisfaction there.
February 9, 1917.
Von Weigand was my first caller. He is anxious to send a <sic>despatch</sic>
through to Amsterdam and for it to get in the German papers. I told him to
write it and submit it to me and I would send it to Washington for approval.
He desires to return to Germany with Bernstorff on the Frederick 8th. His idea
is that he might do something toward letting the German people know what our
real attitude regarding them is.
Lincoln Colcord followed von Weigand. He came to submit his article
entitled "Junkerism". He has written it wonderfully well. It is a combination
of his own, Ferguson's and my ideas. I made some changes which he accepted.
Harry Sleeper called to enlist my sympathies in behalf of the American
Ambulance Corps in France. They fear that our participation in the war will
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the prevailing error of all the belligerent governments. I thought it foolish
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