Now the Prime Minister is going to Paris--ostensibly to see his daughter off to the Riviera.
Nobody believes that reason.

They say he's going to smooth out the French.

Meantime the Germans are gleeful.
And the British Navy League is receiving money and encouraging letters from British subjects, praying greater activity to keep the navy up.

You touch the navy and you touch the quick--that's the lesson.

It's an enormous excitement that this small incident has caused.
W.H.P.
_To Edward M.House_ London, February 24, 1914.
My Dear House: You'll be interested in these pamphlets by Sir Max Waechter, who has opened an office here and is spending much money to "federate" Europe, and to bring a lessening of armaments.