He is, in fact, the right man in the right place.

In Belgium all men, Belgians, Americans, Germans, speak well of him.

In one night he shipped out of Brussels, in safety and comfort, five thousand Germans; and when the German army advanced upon that city it was largely due to him and to the Spanish minister, the Marquis Villalobar, that Brussels did not meet the fate of Antwerp.

He has a direct way of going at things.

One day, while the Belgian Government still was in Brussels and Whitlock in charge of the German legation, the chief justice called upon him.