I saw him several times--( 1) in his office; (2) at his house; (3) at the French Ambassador's; (4) at Wallace's; (5) at his office; (6) at Crozier's[44]--this during my first stay in Washington.

The only remark he made was that I'd find a different atmosphere in Washington from the atmosphere in London.

Truly.
All the rest of his talk was about "cases." Would I see Senator Owen?
Would I see Congressman Sherley?
Would I take up this "case" and that?
His mind ran on "cases." Well, at Y's, when I was almost in despair, I rammed down him a sort of general statement of the situation as I saw it; at least, I made a start.

But soon he stopped me and ran off at a tangent on some historical statement I had made, showing that his mind was not at all on the real subject, the large subject.

When I returned to Washington, and he had read my interviews with Grey, Asquith, and Bryce[45], and my own statement, he still said nothing, but he ceased to talk of "cases." At my final interview he said that he had had difficulty in preventing Congress from making the retaliatory resolution mandatory.