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are in condition to express your thoughts through a representative government. On
the other hand, the present government is offering you peace through conquest which,
of necessity, has in it all the elements of chance and cannot be relied upon".
Drummond is to take this up with Balfour on Monday and if Balfour acqui-
esces, which Drummond assures me he will, he, Balfour, is to discuss it with the
President. I shall write the President tomorrow and prepare him for the inter-
view. And this reminds me, I cannot get action from the President on more than
one thing at a time. He seems utterly incapable of taking up more than one se-
rious matter at once. He is allowing the Japanese situation and the South Amer-
ican situation<del>,</del> and even the diplomatic end of the European situation, largely
<add>to</add> take care of themselves while he is pushing through the army and tax measures.
It is too bad that such a great man should be so handicapped by this limitation.
He lacks, too, as I have said before, the power of large administration, depend-
ing almost wholly upon his individual efforts. He is unable or unwilling to shift
the burden to other shoulders.
Barry Faulkner, the artist, called with some photographs representing
the efforts of himself end associates to provide our army with uniforms to make
them as nearly like the landscape as possible. It is the first time I have seen
anything of this new device which the French call, "camouflage".
May 20, 1917.
I was to have seen Drummond at five this afternoon, but Wiseman telephon-
ed that he had to take an earlier train to Washington. I therefore gave up my
proposed trip to the country to lunch with the Couderts and conferred with Drum-
mond instead.
I gave him a pad and asked him to outline what he thought the President
should say in the event it was agreed that it was best to make such a statement
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are in condition to express your thoughts through a representative government. On
the other hand, the present government is offering you peace through conquest which,
of necessity, has in it all the elements of chance and cannot be relied upon".
Drummond is to take this up with Balfour on Monday and if Balfour acqui-
esces, which Drummond assures me he will, he, Balfour, is to discuss it with the
President. I shall write the President tomorrow and prepare him for the inter-
view. And this reminds me, I cannot get action from the President on more than
one thing at a time. He seems utterly incapable of taking up more than one se-
rious matter at once. He is allowing the Japanese situation and the South Amer-
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