It would cause anger and bitterness, but nothing to compare with the resentment which will be aroused if the uncertainty is permitted to go on much longer.

I shall tell the President my opinion at the first opportunity.

[I did this a few days later.] "The future is darkened by the Adriatic situation and I look to an explosion before the matter is settled.

It is a good thing that the President visited Italy when he did and when blessings rather than curses greeted him.

Secret diplomacy is reaping a new harvest of execrations and condemnations.