Then of Americans applying for enlistment in Canadian regiments.

"If sheer brute force conquer Europe," said he, "the United States will be the only country where life will be worth living; and in time you will have to fight against it, too, if it conquer Europe." He spoke of the letter he had just received from the President, and he asked me many sympathetic questions about you also and about your health.

I ventured to express some solicitude for him.
"How much do you get out now "Only for an automobile drive Sunday afternoon." This from a man who is never happy away from nature and is at home only in the woods and along the streams.

He looks worn.
I hear nothing but satisfaction with our neutrality tight-rope walk.

I think we are keeping it here, by close attention to our work and by silence.
Our volunteer and temporary aids are doing well--especially the army and navy officers.