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for what we have gotten as, indeed, he was for catching and decyphering the
Zimmermann note. No one has done better work than Hall. Wiseman cabled
him the President's appreciation, and also mine. Admiral Hall was especially
desirous that we should know that he had caught and <sic>unravelled</sic> these German
<sic>despatches.</sic>
September 18, 1917.
Roland S. Morris took lunch with us. We had an exhaus-
tive talk about the Japanese and the Far Eastern question. I talked to him
very much along the lines of my letter to the President last August. He
had just seen Roosevelt and he tells me that Roosevelt's views and mine are
almost identical. I shall write the President tomorrow or next day and ask
him to see Morris before he sails next Tuesday. I am doing what I can to set-
tle this Chinese-Japanese problem, for unless it is properly settled, the fu-
ture will be full of difficulties and dangers.
R.W. Woolley was one of my callers. Lord Northcliffe came by ap-
pointment to bring Premier Holman of New South Wales. Holman remained only
<add>a few minutes</add> <del/> to express the hope that the United States
would be good enough to permit the Australian ships now being built on our ways,
to go to their home ports when finished. Northcliffe says that Holman is one
the greatest English speaking orators. He impressed me favorably.
Northcliffe remained for nearly an hour telling how impossible Spring-
Rice was and how fearful he was that the Ambassador would create trouble between
our two countries. He said the Ambassador warned him against Hurley of the
Shipping Board, declaring that he was an Irishman and to be careful. He also
said the Duke of Devonshire had told him that the Ambassador had warned the
Duke of Connaught that the United States had designs against Canada. Spring-
Rice told someone in Washington the other day that the President felt he had
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for what we have gotten as, indeed, he was for catching and decyphering the
Zimmermann note. No one has done better work than Hall. Wiseman cabled
him the President's appreciation, and also mine. Admiral Hall was especially
desirous that we should know that he had caught and |
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