I think I told you of one of their correspondents, who one night got up and yawned at a public dinner as soon as I had spoken and said to his neighbours: "Well, I'll go, the Ambassador didn't say anything that I can get him into trouble about." I shall, hereafter, write out my speeches and have them gone over carefully by my little Cabinet of Secretaries.

Yet something (perhaps not much) will be lost.

For these people are infinitely kind and friendly and courteous.
They cannot be driven by anybody to do anything, but they can be led by us to do anything--by the use of spontaneous courtesy.

It is by spontaneous courtesy that I have achieved whatever I have achieved, and it is for this that those like me who do like me.

Of course, what some of the American newspapers have said is true--that I am too free and too untrained to be a great Ambassador.