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...Washington met Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. With Ray Stannard Baker he edited President Wilson's papers for publication. He has written Jefferson's Rückkehr zur Politik (an account in German of Jefferson's first Presidential campaign), Life of Jefferson Davis, Statesmen of the Old South, Expansion and Conflict, The Cotton Kingdom. He was a strong and early champion of the idea that German imperialism cannot be wholly blamed for the War. Though a Democrat, the new Ambassador is a political unknown holding his first public office. As a college professor...
Among the belongings of the League of Nations is a great inkstand of ivory and gold. The well is an imperial crown, supported by two antelope horns which statesmen have likened to the horns of a Dilemma. It was a present from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie. Power...
...President hesitate on a detail of India's silver holdings or France's light artillery or Canada's tariff administration-and Expert Moley was close at his side to supply the exact information. Once or twice a day during the week President Roosevelt and his visiting statesmen would issue joint White House communiques about their talks. Like most communiques, these were more concealing than revealing. They dealt almost wholly in generalities. One told how President Roosevelt and Mr. MacDonald had laid the basis of a "clearer understanding" on War Debts but, in the next breath, denied that...
...Japanese throats made his controlled face work, his toothbrush mustache jump up & down. The Emperor sent him a cask of sake (rice wine) and a case of fish, had him to luncheon at the Imperial Palace. To his countrymen Matsuoka's statements were a model for homecoming Japanese statesmen...
...think of him as one of the great soldier-statesmen of all time. ... I dare to say that his name will be remembered when most of the other generals in the Great War are forgotten, for it is associated with the land that is still sacred to the people of three world-religions...