Two nights ago I didn't get time to read a letter or even a telegram that had come that day till 11 o'clock at night.

For on top of all these Embassies, I've had to become Commissary-General to feed 6,000,000 starving people in Belgium; and practically all the food must come from the United States.

You can't buy food for export in any country in Europe.

The devastation of Belgium defeats the Germans .-- I don't mean in battle but I mean in the after-judgment of mankind.

They cannot recover from that half as soon as they may recover from the economic losses of the war.