trains to meet
them, while the war has stopped his big business and his big
income. This is a sample of the noble American end of the story.

These are the saving class of people to whom life becomes a bore
unless they can help somebody. There's just such a fellow in
Brussels--you may have heard of him, for his name is Whitlock.
Stories of his showing himself a man come out of that closed-up
city every week. To a really big man, it doesn't matter whether his
post is a little post, or a big post but, if I were President, I'd
give Whitlock a big post. There's another fellow somewhere in
Germany--a consul--of whom I never heard till the other day. But
people have taken to coming in my office--English ladies--who wish
to thank "you and your great government" for the courage and
courtesy of this consul[69]. Stories about him will follow.
Herrick, too, in Paris, somehow causes Americans and English and
even Guatemalans who come along to go out of their way to say what
he has done for them. Now there is a quality in the old woman with
the baby bottles, and in the consul and in Whitlock and Hoover and
Herrick and this English nation which adopts the Belgians--a
quality that is invincible. When folk like these come down the
road, I respectfully do obeisance to them. And--it's this kind of
folk that the Germans have run up against. I thank Heaven I'm of
their race and blood.

The whole world is bound to be changed as a result of this war. If
Germany should win, our Monroe Doctrine would at once be shot in
two, and we should have to get "out of the sun." The military party
is a party of conquest--absolutely. If England wins, as of course
she will, it'll be a bigger and a stronger England, with no strong
enemy in the world, with her Empire knit closer than ever--India,
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Egypt; under
obligations to and in alliance with Russia! England will not need
our friendship as much as she now needs it; and there may come
governments here that will show they do not. In any event, you see,
the world will be changed. It's changed already: witness
Bernstorff[70] and Muensterberg[71] playing the part once played by
Irish agitators!

All of which means that it is high time we were constructing a
foreign service. First of