everything I can--always on the condition that I'm kept out of the
papers. If they'll never mention me, I'll do everything possible
for them. Absolute silence of the newspapers (as far as I can
affect it) is the first rule of safety. So far as I know, we've
done fairly well; but always in proportion to silence. I don't want
any publicity. I don't want any glory. I don't want any office. I
don't want nothin'--but to do this job squarely, to get out of this
scrape, to go off somewhere in the sunshine and to see if I can
slip back into my old self and see the world sane again. Yet I'm
immensely proud that I have had the chance to do some good--to keep
our record straight--as far as I can, and to be of what service I
can to these heroic people.

Out of it all, one conviction and one purpose grows and becomes
clearer. The world isn't yet half-organized. In the United States
we've lived in a good deal of a fool's paradise. The world isn't
half so safe a place as we supposed. Until steamships and
telegraphs brought the nations all close together, of course we
could enjoy our isolation. We can't do so any longer. One mad fool
in Berlin has turned the whole earth topsy-turvy. We'd forgotten
what our forefathers learned--the deadly dangers of real monarchs
and of castes and classes. There are a lot of 'em left in the world
yet. We've grown rich and-weak; we've let cranks and old women
shape our ideas. We've let our politicians remain provincial and
ignorant.

And believe me, dear D.P. & Co. with affectionate greeting to every
one of you and to every one of yours, collectively and singly,

Yours heartily,

W.H.P.

_Memorandum written after attending the service at St. Paul's in
memory of Lord Kitchener_[34].

American Embassy, London.

There were two Kitcheners, as every informed person knows--(1) the
popular hero and (2) the Cabinet Minister with whom it was
impossible for his associates to get along. He made his
administrative career as an autocrat dealing with dependent and
inferior peoples. This experience fixed his habits and made it
impossible for him to do team work or to delegate work or even to
inform his associates of what he had done or was doing. While,
therefore, his name raised a great army, he was in many ways a