Now your book, without mentioning the subject, shows this important fact clearly, by showing that our aloofness has all been a fiction.

_We've been in the world--and right in the middle of the world--the whole time_.
And our public consciousness of this fact has enormously slipped back.

Take Franklin, Madison, Monroe, Jefferson; take Hay, Root--and then consider some of our present representatives! One good result of the war and of our being in it will be the restoration of our foreign consciousness.

Every one of the half million, or three million, soldiers who go to France will know more about foreign affairs than all Congress knew two years ago.
A stay of nearly five years in London (five years ago to-day I was on the ship coming here) with no absence long enough to give any real rest, have got my digestion wrong.

I've therefore got a real leave for two months.