feeling."

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 64: August 1, 1917, Pope Benedict XV sent a letter to the
Powers urging them to bring the war to an end and outlining possible
terms of settlement. On August 29th President Wilson sent his historic
reply. This declared, in memorable language, that the Hohenzollern
dynasty was unworthy of confidence and that the United States would have
no negotiations with its representatives. It inferentially took the
stand that the Kaiser must abdicate, or be deposed, and the German
autocracy destroyed, as part of the conditions of peace.]

[Footnote 65: On November 29, 1917, the London _Daily Telegraph_
published a letter from the Marquis of Lansdowne, which declared that
the war had lasted too long and suggested that the British restate their
war aims. This letter was severely condemned by the British press and by
practically all representative British statesmen. It produced a most
lamentable impression in the United States also.]

[Footnote 66: Eugene C. Shoecraft, the Ambassador's secretary.]

[Footnote 67: As related in Chapter XXII, page 267, President Wilson was
informed of the so-called "secret treaties" by Mr. Balfour, in the
course of his memorable visit to the White House.]

CHAPTER XXV

GETTING THE AMERICAN TROOPS TO FRANCE

A group of letters, written at this time, touch upon a variety of topics
which were then engaging the interest of all countries:

_To Arthur W. Page_

London, January 19, 1918.

DEAR ARTHUR:

While your letter is still fresh in my mind I dictate the following
in answer to your question about Palestine.

It has not been settled--and cannot be, I fancy, until the Peace
Conference--precisely what the British will do with Palestine, but
I have what I think is a correct idea of their general attitude on
the subject. First, of course, they do not propose to allow it to
go back into Turkish hands; and the same can be said also of
Armenia and possibly of Mesopotamia. Their idea of the future of
Palestine is that whoever shall manage the country, or however it
shall be managed, the Jews shall have the same chance as anybody
else. Of course that's quite an advance for the Jews there, but
their idea is not that the Jews should have command of other
populations there or control over them--not in the least. My guess
at the English wish, which I have every reason to believe i