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to see all the foreign <sic>despatches</sic> to the State Department in order that he may
have a clear survey of international political affairs and better know how to
apportion loans to the Allies. Another day he goes to the President with a
demand for representation on the Embargo Board, giving the same reason. The day
after he appears with a demand to be placed in control of the Shipping Board, be-
cause there must be coordination between the lending of money to the Allies and
the purchasing of their supplies, and facilitating the transport of these supplies
to Europe. Another day he demands the control of the Purchasing Board, and
for the same reason, that is, he cannot properly apportion money unless he is in-
formed as to what is being bought.
When you sum up, <del/> it means he would be in complete control of the
Government. He even<del>t</del> went further and thought the Secretaries of the Army and
Navy should report to him in order that he might correct any duplication which
they or the Allies might have in mind. He makes a plausible argument; for, in
a way, he ought to know something of the entire situation in order to act intel-
ligently, but, taking his demands as a whole, it would leave him as arbiter not
only of the United States but of the European nations as well.
He complained that this lack of authority was ruining his health. That
he could not work with a brake placed upon him in so many directions. He com-
plained, too, of the President's unwillingness to face any sort of friction or
trouble. This trait, McAdoo said, has grown of late rather than diminished. It
is a fact that the President does try to evade issues among his subordinates. I
have seen him grow grey in the face when I would suggest the need of action that
would entail the facing of a disagreeable situation concerning his official fam-
ily. McAdoo attributes his growing <sic>tendancy</sic> in this direction to Mrs. Wilson.
McAdoo grumbled at the lack of coordination in the Cabinet. He declares
the President never consults any of them about critical situations, and never
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