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Mrs. August Belmont lunched with us. She wished advice as to how best to
sell Liberty Bonds. She should do effective work in this direction because she
speaks well and has an attractive personality.
We dined with the Mezes and some eight or ten others. I talked with
Owen Johnson who has recently returned from France.
May 19, 1917.
Stettinius, of Morgan & Co. who has done the purchasing for the Allies dur-
ing the last year or more, called with Wiseman. The British Ambassador was in-
sistent that I should meet him. He is an able fellow and has well conceived
ideas as to how the purchasing should be done jointly for this country and our
Allies. I requested a memorandum which he promised to give and which I shall
send to the President.
Sir Eric Drummond lunched with me. He brought a letter from Mr. Balfour
relating <add>to</add> the coordination of our Intelligence Departments.
When Col. Dancy was here I told him that if Balfour thought it was of suf-
ficient importance to write me a note, I would undertake to see what could be done.
Balfour wrote the note and a memorandum. However, I talked Drummond out of the
idea, and together we agreed upon a different plan which leaves Wiseman practi-
cally in control and makes the State Department the center of information as now.
No reply has come from the Prime Minister concerning the proposal I made
Balfour, through Drummond, as to the exchange of battle ships after the war. An
answer is expected before they leave. We discussed this at length, and I asked
him to take the matter up with Lansing in order that the Secretary and I could
jointly take it up with the President. Drummond was rather in favor of leaving
it in my hands and that of the President without letting it go through the State
Department, largely because it would have to go through the British Embassy at
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Mrs. August Belmont lunched with us. She wished advice as to how best to
sell Liberty Bonds. She should do effective work in this direction because she
speaks well and has an attractive personality.
We dined with the Mezes and some eight or ten others. I talked with
Owen Johnson who has recently returned from France.
May 19, 1917.
Stettinius, of Morgan & Co. who has done the purchasing for the Allies dur-
ing the last year or more, called with Wiseman. The British Ambassador was in-
sistent that I should meet him. He is an able fellow and has well conceived
ideas as to how the purchasing should be done jointly for this country and our
Allies. I requested a memorandum which he promised to give and which I shall
send to the President.
Sir Eric Drummond lunched with me. He brought a letter from Mr. Balfour
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