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36 Paris that June Owen Wister visited Paris at the same time, and was struck by its air of dilapidation and self-doubt (“The French face … too often a face of worried sadness, or revolt”) in contrast with Germany’s clicking efficiency and “contentment.” (Wister, The Pentecost of Calamity, 54.) See also Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 46.
37 Georges Clemenceau’s passionate Clemenceau, Discours de guerre, 17; Strachan, The First World War, 46; François Lesure and Roger Nichols, eds., Debussy Letters (Cambridge, Mass., 1987), 292. Debussy, writing to Robert Godet, was looking back to the Franco-Prussian War, which he regarded as a catastrophe for French culture.
38 “suffrage bomb” The Washington Post, 15 June 1914.
39 The old church See above, 604. The British prime minister H. H. Asquith had also been married there.
40 Obscurely basking Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 307–8.
41 Afterward the Lees Lee, A Good Innings, 1.523ff. Chequers was deeded to the nation in 1921.
42 country palace near Prague Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 305.
43 Wilhelm neither Ibid.
44 While Roosevelt Nevins, Henry White, 326; The Washington Post, 18 June 1914; The New York Times, 17 June 1914.
45 Roosevelt more or less TR’s address, “A Journey in Central Brazil,” is printed in Geographical Journal, 45.2 (Feb. 1915), with a magnificent foldout map based on the observations of Lyra and Rondon.
46 The nearest he got Geographical Journal, 45.2 (Feb. 1915); Daily Express, 17 June 1914.
47 “This is my” The New York Times, 18 June 1914. See also TR, Letters, 7.779–80.
48 He used virtually The New York Times, 18 June 1914; Lee, A Good Innings, 1.524. TR was well acquainted with Balfour’s views on this subject, having already devoured abstracts of the former Tory leader’s Gifford Lectures, given at the University of Glasgow the previous winter. (Balfour to TR, 29 Sept. 1915 [AJB].) The lectures were published in 1915 under the title Theism and Humanism.
49 He called on The New York Times, 16 June 1914.
50 other members of the government Robert Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea (New York, 2003), 166–72. The following supplementary list of other persons seen by TR during his short visit to England is given simply to indicate the breadth of his British acquaintance on the eve of World War I: Lloyd George, chancellor of the exchequer, and Lord Lewis Harcourt, colonial secretary; Sir Edward Carson, Austen Chamberlain, Henry Chaplin, George Cave, and Viscount Walter Hume Long, leaders of the Tory Opposition; Lord Northcliffe, the press baron; Geoffrey Robinson Dawson and J. L. Garvin, editors respectively of The Times and The Observer; Sir Bertrand Dawson, physician to the King; Fred S. Oliver, the department store magnate; Edward Lyttelton, headmaster of Eton; George Otto Trevelyan, the historian; Sir Leander Starr Jameson, the Boer War raider; and Lord Roberts, the apostle of war preparedness.
51 “Excuse me sir” Lee, A Good Innings, 1.526. Alice Longworth, who had crossed over with her father at the end of May, did not accompany him on his return voyage.
52 Five minutes after TR, Letters, 7.769; TR interviewed by The New York Times, 19, 25 June 1914.
53 “When Roosevelt” Walter Hines Page to WW, 12 July 1914 (WWP).
54 Roosevelt had rejected See Morris, Theodore Rex, chaps. 18 and 19.
55 Roosevelt angrily insisted Abbott, Impressions of TR, 140. Abbott was a fellow passenger on the Imperator, and witnessed TR’s “thoroughly lively” interview with the Colombian diplomat.
56 “If anybody”