I thank Heaven and the Administration for Secretary Baker's visit.

It is a dramatic moment in the history of the race, of democracy, and of the world.

The State Department has the duty to deal with foreign affairs--the especial duty--and yet no man in the State Department has been here since the war began.

This doesn't look pretty and it won't look pretty when the much over-worked "future historian" writes it down in a book.

Remove that grievance.
The most interesting thing going on in the world to-day--a thing that in History will transcend the war and be reckoned its greatest gain--is the high leadership of the President in formulating the struggle, in putting its aims high, and in taking the democratic lead in the world, a lead that will make the world over--and in taking the democratic lead of the English-speaking folk.