28/43 Thus some of us are on confidential terms with somebody in every department of the Government, with somebody in every other Embassy and Legation, with all the newspapers and correspondents--even with the censors. And the wives of those that are married are abler than their husbands. They are most attractive young women--welcome everywhere--and indefatigable. Mrs.Page has them spend one afternoon a week with her, rolling bandages; and that regular meeting always yields something else. They come to my house Thursday afternoons, too, when people always drop in to tea-visitors from other countries, resident Americans, English--everybody--Sometimes one hundred. |