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Unreconciled to resignation in Paris, he returned to Washington as if nothing had happened, again to resume his subservient relations to the President. Opportunity, we are told, knocks only once at a man's door, but while opportunity thundered at Mr. Lansing's portal "his ear was closed with the cotton of negligence." Early in 1920 Mr.
Singleton was surprised; Lansing's attitude was puzzling, considering that he had suggested the flotation of the projected company. "Do you want the drawbacks insisted on?" he asked. Herbert smiled. "I don't want them mitigated; state them clearly. Include what you told me about the trouble with the natives, and the poisoned arrows." Then a light broke in upon Singleton.
As of late, as has already been mentioned, several doubtful submarine incidents had occurred, the Press took this remark to mean that the United States would enter the war against us if the intervention move came to nothing. Mr. Wilson immediately, realized that such an interpretation of Mr. Lansing's words would seriously jeopardize his peace move.
When the announcement of Lansing's resignation was made, the flood-gates of fury broke about the President; but he was serene throughout it all. When I called at the White House on the following Sunday, I found him calmly seated in his bathroom with his coloured valet engaged in the not arduous task of cutting his hair.
But for some reason Mr. Lansing's praiseworthy ambition was defeated. Mr. Moore had knowledge, learning, and experience, but he was denied the gift of divination. Had he known that a few months later a half crazed youth in an unheard of place was to be the unconscious agent to set the whole world aflame, undoubtedly he would have put up with Mr.
See also Balance of power; Council of Four; Equality of nations. Greece, territory. Gregory, Thomas W., and Wilson's modus vivendi idea. Guaranty. See Affirmative; Self-denying. Hague Conventions, and international peace. Hague Tribunal, and Lansing's plan; Wilson's contempt; recognition in Cecil plan. Hands Off, as basis of Lansing's plan. Health, promotion in Treaty.
The Bishop answered easily and quietly: "Yes, Lansing, I am the Chaplain. But I did not think anybody remembered now." Tom Lansing's eyes leaped wide with doubt and question. They stared full at the Bishop. Then they turned and saw the table standing in its right place; saw Ruth Lansing standing by the table; saw the dog at the fireplace. The man there was real!
They were nice people, with pleasant English ways; and George contrasted them with the rather grim, aggressive plainsmen among whom he would presently have to live: men who toiled in the heat, half naked, and who would sit down to meals with him in dusty, unwashed clothes. He was not a sybarite, but he preferred the society of Mrs. Lansing's guests.
Whiting, a keen-faced, capable woman of the hills, where people had to meet their problems and burdens alone, took command at once. "No, sir," she replied to the Bishop's question, "there's nobody to send for. The Lansings didn't have a relation living that anybody ever heard of, and I knew the old folks, too, Tom Lansing's father and mother.
There was little enough need of any preliminary effort on Lansing's part to fix his thoughts upon Mary. It was only requisite that to the intensity of the mental vision, with which he had before imagined her, should be added the activity of the will, turning the former mood of despair into one of resistance.
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