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Jourdain saw BR yesterday and they had a long talk on the war. "Russell is of opinion that Grey is a very unscrupulous person in fact he described him as a 'devil'.... With regard to the violation of Belgium's neutrality, Russell is sure that Germany violated it first and with no provocation on the part of France, but that if France had violated it, England would not have interfered."

"... Russell's own grandfather, Lord John Russell, was Prime Minister of England, and Russell himself has always had a strong leaning toward politics. I have asked Bryce to send Russell and some other people copies of the October Open Court ... Russell from short reading did not think much of Haeckel's article."

[Carus seems to have marked the whole first paragraph for use, perhaps in print. See record 128200.]