ce that he
has. He has made the very best of the chance and he has completely
won the confidence and admiration of this side of the world.

Pershing made an admirable impression here, and in France he has
simply set them wild with joy. His coming and his little army have
been worth what a real army will be worth later. It is well he came
to keep the French in line.

The army of doctors and nurses have had a similar effect.

Even the New England saw-mill units have caused a furor of
enthusiasm. They came with absolute Yankee completeness of
organization--with duplicate parts of all their machinery, tents,
cooks, pots, and pans, and everything ship-shape. The only question
they asked was: "Say, where the hell are them trees you want sawed
up?" That's the way to do a job! Yankee stock is made high here by
such things as that.

We're getting a crowd of Yankee lecturers on the United States to
go up and down this Kingdom. There's the greatest imaginable
curiosity to hear about the United States in all kinds of society
from munition workers to universities. I got the British Government
to write Buttrick[63] to come as its guest, and the Rockefeller
Boards rose to the occasion. He'll probably be along presently. If
he hasn't already sailed when you get this, see him and tell him to
make arrangements to have pictures sent over to him to illustrate
his lectures. Who else could come to do this sort of a job?

I am myself busier than I have ever been. The kind of work the
Embassy now has to do is very different from the work of the days
of neutrality. It continues to increase--especially the work that I
have to do myself. But it's all pleasant now. We are trying to help
and no longer to hinder. To save my life I don't see how the
Washington crowd can look at themselves in a mirror and keep their
faces straight. Yesterday they were bent on sending everything into
European neutral states. The foundations of civilization would give
way if neutral trade were interfered with. Now, nothing must go in
except on a ration basis. Yesterday it must be a peace without
victory. Now it must be a complete victory, every man and every
dollar thrown in, else no peace is worth having. I don't complain.
I only rejoice. But I'm glad that kind of a rapid change is not a