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and we do not wish it interrupted. He promised nothing would be done to upset
the method now in force.
We talked of the unsatisfactory condition of the submarine warfare. I
thought that whatever they were doing they should try something else, for they
could not do worse than at present. It interested me to have him explain the
"funnel idea" which I gave Gaunt some two months ago and which he has evidently
passed on and which they are planning to adopt.
We worked out an arrangement by which we were to keep in close communica-
tion through Wiseman.
April 27, 1917.
Ex-President Taft arrived at the Wallaces this afternoon as a house guest.
We had an interesting talk before dinner. He constantly referred, in a humorous
way, to my reputation for silence. Every time he left the room he would say,
"I hope the Colonel will not be indiscreet in my absence".
The dinner guests, besides Mr. Taft and Mr. Balfour, were Jus-
tices Day and McReynolds, Senators Knox, Saulsbury and Gary and Representative
Gillette and Gordon. I sat with President Taft on the one side and Stilson
Hutchins on the other. Hutchins amused me by giving his opinion of Roosevelt
and George Harvey whom he considered the greatest egotists and advertisers the
world had ever seen. He said that God was kind to P. T. Barnum for letting
him die before he knew of Roosevelt and Harvey, as he would have been deeply
humiliated at his inferiority as an advertiser.
Knox asked Taft <del/> how people addressed him, "President Taft, Professor
Taft or Judge Taft". Taft replied, "It does not concern me so long as they do
not call me Colonel". Knox asked if this was a reflection upon me. I replied
that I did not feel that it was; that I had a suspicion Mr. Taft referred to
someone else. I offered, to save Mr. Taft's feelings, to use my good offices
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and we do not wish it interrupted. He promised nothing would be done to upset
the method now in force.
We talked of the unsatisfactory condition of the submarine warfare. I
thought that whatever they were doing they should try something else, for they
could not do worse than at present. It interested me to have him explain the
"funnel idea" which I gave Gaunt some two months ago and which he has evidently
passed on and which they are planning to adopt.
We worked out an arrangement by which we were to keep in close communica-
tion through Wiseman.
April 27, 1917.
Ex-President Taft arrived at the Wallaces this afternoon as a house guest.
We had an interesting talk before dinner. He constantly referred, in a humorous
way, to my reputation for silence. Every time he left the room he would say,
"I hope the Colonel will not be indiscreet in my absence".
The dinner guests, besides Mr. Taft and Mr. Balfour, were Jus-
tices Day and McReynolds, Senators Knox, Saulsbury and Gary and Representative
Gillette and Gordon. I sat with President Taft on the one side and Stilson
Hutchins on the other. Hutchins amused me by giving his opinion of Roosevelt
and George Harvey whom he considered the greatest egotists and advertisers the
world had ever seen. He said that God was kind to P. T. Barnum for letting
him die before he knew of Roosevelt and Harvey, as he would have been deeply
humiliated at his inferiority as an advertiser.
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