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 all, Congress ought to make it possible to have half a dozen or more permanent foreign under-secretaries--men who, after service in the Department, could go out as Ministers and Ambassadors; it ought generously to reorganize the whole thing.