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One Day President Roosevelt Told Me That He Was Asking Publicly For Suggestions About What The War Should Be Called. I Said At Once 'the Unnecessary War'.

Individual Moslems May Show Splendid Qualities. Thousands Become The Brave And Loyal Soldiers Of The Queen: All Know How To Die: But The Influence Of The Religion Paralyses The Social Development Of Those Who Follow It. No Stronger Retrograde Force Exists In The World. Far From Being Moribund, Mohammedanism Is A Militant And Proselytizing Faith. It Has Already Spread Throughout Central Africa, Raising Fearless Warriors At Every Step; And Were It Not That Christianity Is Sheltered In The Strong Arms Of Science, The Science Against Which It Had Vainly Struggled, The Civilisation Of Modern Europe Might Fall, As Fell The Civilisation Of Ancient Rome.

It Has Not Fallen To Your Lot To Command Great Armies. You Had To Create Them, Organize Them And Inspire Them.

One Is Quite Astonished To Find How Many Things There Are In The Landscape, And In Every Object In It, One Never Noticed Before. And This Is A Tremendous New Pleasure And Interest Which Invests Every Walk Or Drive With An Added Object. So Many Colours On The Hillside, Each Different In Shadow And In Sunlight; Such Brilliant Reflections In The Pool, Each A Key Lower Than What They Repeat; Such Lovely Lights Gilding Or Silvering Surface Or Outline, All Tinted Exquisitely With Pale Colour, Rose, Orange, Green Or Violet.

"i Have Not Made Any Arrogant, Confident, Boasting Predictions At All. On The Contrary, I Have Stuck Hard To My "blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat," To Which I Have Added Muddle And Mismanagement, And That, To Some Extend I Must Admit, Is What You Have Got Out Of It."