Evening star., 1925-10-17
Friday. March ., 1917.

more rapld succession VI eNCitliiS
events, and yet we refuse to be eX-
cited. Startling things have become
normal The Zimmerman tBerln)
Nexican-Japan bomb burst today, the
zimmerman telegram to the German
Minister in Mexico being in the morn
ing papers. They gave 1t out in
Washington apparently to cause Con-
gress to give the President authority
to arm merchant ships. etc, etc. as
he should see fit, and to use the
armed forces of the Nation to protect
commerce and life. 1t had the erect.
An enormous ma jority in the House
last night (nearly 500 to l3) voted In
favor of the resolution. I am curious
to see the effect on the country.
have never abandoned the belief that
if the President We're really TO lead,
all the people would follow. Whether
he will even now lead remains 10 De
seen.
Yesterday 1 told Chinda, the Japa-
nese Ambassador, about this Limmer-
mann telegram. He thought 1t
huex Joke at first. Today Yates
Thompson confessed that it seemed TO
him a, newspaper hoax! Nobody teW
neople surely) yet thoroughly under
stands the German. This telegram
Will go some distance surely TO IN
struct the people of the L. 5. A.
The danger is that with all the
authority he wants short of a fornal
declaration of war; the President VIII
aqain wait. walt, wait-till an Amer
lean liner be torpedoed! Or till an
attack is made on our coast by
German submarine.
Mr.. Balfour, Mr.. Bonar Law ano
todav had a conference of an hour
| or more about exchange Win 'iie
United States and the possibility OF
more loans there to pay fH mum
tions and food bought there. Couio
| a great popular loan be got In lhe
| J-nitad States dixie the great Victory
| roan herep>-Probably If the rlgh'
NO, took hold of it in every section
| of the United States. Balfour mas al
| wavs held in the cabinet that the
| nrohIem of exchange is the grea'
nroblem-not the submarine.
Tho Commission for Relief IN BEL
,,;,,,, goes slowly to it's end. Inc
80 of Spain and the Queen OF Hol
Iopd are in it-as it will be organ
;aad. and all the official people nave
forgotten Hoover!
We dined tonight at Buckier s.
! the hosts, Miss Buckier' MI. Ivy
hook (who will edit Henry Jaihes
7 etters, the Banker Grenfeh ant
I,,nched at Capt. McDougalrs-the
| prvces the Yates Thompsons ah'
Jellicoes and we.
Talk on League to Enforce Peace
6 March, 1917.
uare,s the rhetorical inaugural
re- NO time for these fine Woros
The II "obstructionists' Senators are
! had enough. But
If w. w. had asked for the
! ,,+horitv he wants a month earlier
80 5Iihuster could have succeeded.
An old 1919 statute ito keel
+ba hunters of Barbary pirates IRON
attacIxins a civilized countryo meet
60 s+.nd in the way, if he were II
| earnest, were not looking ior soiiie
thing to hold him back. :.
q He hasn't called Congress II
| avtra session yet-whlch hed oo
ha wished really to do anything.
| rs the President who still noio'
| ,aon,e hack. And our ships keel
rort yet-kept off the sea montl
- by the Germans. and ne uoe'
| .r,;ng TO help the situation. Ane
| the I,aconia has gone lnto ,L tne 9usi
| ,irobo that has envelopeo 'ns Us .
tn,ia and the Susses ana all lie ies. @
.president Wilson'S secono III au
,u,,rai address, delivered March 4
| 1917