nfidence in us he is worth an army in himself. I have seen
much of him and found out a good deal about his methods. He is
simplicity and directness itself. Although he is as active and
energetic as a boy, he spends some time by himself to think things
out and even to say them to himself to see how his conclusions
strike the ear as well as the mind. He has been staying here at the
house of one of our resident officers. At times he goes to his room
and sits long by the fire and argues his point--out loud--oblivious
to everything else. More than once when he was so engaged one of
his officers has knocked at the door and gone in and laid telegrams
on the table beside him and gone out without his having known of
the officer's entrance. Then he comes out and tries his conclusion
on someone who enjoys his confidence. And then he stands by it and
when the time comes delivers it slowly and with precision; and
there he is; and those who hear him see that he has thought the
matter out on all sides and finally.

Our various establishments in London have now become big--the
Embassy proper, the Naval and Army Headquarters, the Red Cross, the
War Trade Board's representatives, and now (forthwith) the Shipping
Board, besides Mr. Crosby of the Treasury. The volume of work is
enormous and it goes smoothly, except for the somewhat halting
Army Headquarters, the high personnel of which is now undergoing a
change; and that will now be all right. I regularly make the rounds
of all the Government Departments with which we deal to learn if
they find our men and methods effective, and the rounds of all our
centres of activity to find whether there be any friction with the
British The whole machine moves very well. For neither side
hesitates to come to me whenever they strike even small snags. All
our people are at work on serious tasks and (so far as I know)
there are now none of those despicable creatures here who used
during our neutrality days to come from the United States on peace
errands and what-not to spy on the Embassy and me (their inquiries
and their correspondence were catalogued by the police). I have
been amazed at the activity of some of them whose doings I have
since been informed of.

We now pay this tribute to the submarines--that we have entered the