That he would completely sympathize with the Washington aspiration for disarmament was to be expected.
To Edward M.House January 2, 1914.
My Dear House: You have set my imagination going.

I've been thinking of this thing for months, and now you've given me a fresh start.

It can be worked out somehow--doubtless, not in the form that anybody may at first see; but experiment and frank discussion will find a way.
As I think of it, turning it this way and that, there always comes to me just as I am falling to sleep this reflection: the English-speaking peoples now rule the world in all essential facts.
They alone and Switzerland have permanent free government.

In France there's freedom--but for how long?
In Germany and Austria--hardly.

In the Scandinavian States--yes, but they are small and exposed as are Belgium and Holland.