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likened him to an abnormal boy whose mind has never fully developed and whose
brain had slipped a cog.
R. W. Woolley, Henry Morganthau, Sir Horace Plunkett and Dr. Simkhovitch
followed in succession with various subjects of minor importance to discuss. I
am leaving on the midnight for Washington to stop with Hugh Wallace over the
Balfour dinner he is to give.
1800 Massachusetts Avenue,
Washington, D. C.
April 26, 1917.
Frank Lane was my first and longest caller. We went over the work of the
Council for National Defence. He thought it an admirable body but <add>it</add> was not
doing effective work because the President would give them no authority. He
said, in the early days of his administration of the Interior Department, he took
several matters to the President which delayed him in their execution so long
that he determined to act upon his own judgment and take the consequence.
He asked if the President relied upon my advice as much as ever, and whether
I saw him as frequently as in former days. I gently evaded this, and left him
under the impression that, perhaps, I was not consulted more than the Cabinet.
I was glad to see that he was pleased with himself and the work of the Council.
I shall make inquiries from other<add>s</add> on the inside to see how well they agree with
his view.
I had lunch with the President and we talked for an hour or more af-
terward. He said his first conference with Balfour at which Lansing was
present was not satisfactory for the reason, as he expressed it, "Lansing has
a wooden mind and continually blocked what I was trying to <del/> convey. I
would like to have a conversation with Balfour, you being present. How would
it do to invite him to a family dinner and then go into a conference afterward.
Do you think this could be done without hurting the sensibilities of anyone?"
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likened him to an abnormal boy whose mind has never fully developed and whose
brain had slipped a cog.
R. W. Woolley, Henry Morganthau, Sir Horace Plunkett and Dr. Simkhovitch
followed in succession with various subjects of minor importance to discuss. I
am leaving on the midnight for Washington to stop with Hugh Wallace over the
Balfour dinner he is to give.
1800 Massachusetts Avenue,
Washington, D. C.
April 26, 1917.
Frank Lane was my first and longest caller. We went over the work of the
Council for National Defence. He thought it an admirable body but |
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