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glad for I did my best to cheer and please him and it seems I accomplished my
purpose.
But to go back to the Prime Minister and more serious matters, George
wished to explain his attitude regarding the Supreme War Council and to convince
me that the United States should sit in. I had already made up my mind what
was best to do, and I gave my reasons for thinking it would not be wise for us
to have a representative who, at all times, would sit in with the Allied Prime
Ministers and Ministers for Foreign Affairs. I promised to recommend that Gen-
eral Bliss, or some other military personage, should sit with the military
branch of it. George was satisfied with this, but he wished me to <add>con</add> sent to
his making a statement in the House of Commons tomorrow that we approved the
idea and would send a representative. I declined emphatically to permit
this until it had been submitted to Washington.
He said that <del/> Petain and Cadorna thoroughly approve
the plan. He also said that Petain does not approve of future offensives on
the Western Front. If George has his way, and if he represents Petain correctly,
there will be no further offensives in France, but they will wait until the Un-
ited States can throw her strength on the Allied side, or until Russia can re-
cover sufficiently to make a drive on the Eastern Front. I suggested if we
definitely decided upon that policy, it might be well to make a public statement.
The Germans would not receive <del/> with enthusiasm the thought that the Allies on
the Western Front proposed sitting still and holding the line until the end of
1918 or the beginning of 1919, when the United States could bring her full power
against them. George concurred in this view, but we left it for further dis-
cussion.
Curiously enough, he now has in mind some such warfare as the younger Pitt
waged against Napoleon. George called attention to the fact that Pitt was look-
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glad for I did my best to cheer and please him and it seems I accomplished my
purpose.
But to go back to the Prime Minister and more serious matters, George
wished to explain his attitude regarding the Supreme War Council and to convince
me that the United States should sit in. I had already made up my mind what
was best to do, and I gave my reasons for thinking it would not be wise for us
to have a representative who, at all times, would sit in with the Allied Prime
Ministers and Ministers for Foreign Affairs. I promised to recommend that Gen-
eral Bliss, or some other military personage, should sit with the military
branch of it. George was satisfied with this, but he wished me to |
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