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been dragged into the war by England. I calmed Northcliffe by telling him
that as long as we had no secrets from one another, <sic>throuble</sic> could not be en-
gendered.
I should like to see some of the <sic>despatches</sic> Northcliffe is sending back
home about the Ambassador and vice versa.
Northcliffe expressed a belief that the United States as a whole was an-
tagonistic to England. I tried to contradict this. Much to my surprise he
said: "Your suggestion that the British Government should obtain the money
through the French Government for the payment of the Morgan loan indicates
this prejudice, and I so cabled my Government, asking them to be careful."
It took me some minutes to make him understand that the objection was made
wholly because of the loan being held by Morgan & Company, and the impossibil-
ity of McAdoo paying them with Government funds. I asked him to correct the
impression he had given.
He was amused with something Wiseman had told us. Bonar Law had pre-
pared some cables to send McAdoo on the financial question. They were pretty
stiff in tone, particularly since Great Britain was the borrower. Bonar Law
thought they were excellent messages to send. Sir William told him that just
such communications to America caused the Boston Tea Party, and that if he de-
sired another, to send them as written. Law saw the point and changed the
tone.
September 19, 1917.
Bernard Ridder called this morning to talk over his plans to get the
German-Americans back of the President's answer to the Pope.
Jameson, of the National Democratic Committee, came to go over
Party matters. W.R. Miller, our Consul General at Seoul, Korea, called to
be looked over as a possible instrument to use in securing data upon the Far
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