At the annual dinner of the oldest and richest of the merchants' guilds at which they invited me to respond to a toast the other night they proposed your health most heartily and, when I arose, they cheered longer and louder than I had before heard men cheer in this kingdom.

There is, I am sure, more enthusiasm for the United States here, by far, than for England in the United States.

They are simply dense about any sort of government but their own--particularly dense about the application of democracy to "dependencies" and inferior peoples.

I have a neighbour who spent many years as an administrator in India.
He has talked me deaf about the inevitable failure of this "idealistic" Mexican programme.

He is wholly friendly, and wholly incredulous.