"I read a fascinating book, Behind the Scenes of International Finance by Paul Einzig. It is savagely anti-French, but seems to prove its points."

"... apparently this is to be the beginning of a virtual alliance between England and America. If it does not lead to war, it may do good."

"I have been reading enormously. Hogben—good but very technical. Wells's new book—the parts about money and giving biographies of very rich men are good, but the rest has not sufficient unity or direction. A life of Bismarck; also one of Luther. Several books on American big business."