[85] Mr. Irwin Laughlin, first secretary of the American Embassy in London, furnishes this note: "This statement about America was made to me more than once in Germany, between 1910 and 1912, by German officers, military and naval."

[86] Of Pinehurst, North Carolina, the Ambassador's oldest son.

[87] On June 12, 1914. The title of the address was "Some Aspects of the American Democracy."

[88] The Ambassador's youngest son.

[89] Mrs. W.H. Page was at this time spending a few weeks in the United States.


CHAPTER XII

"WAGING NEUTRALITY"

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