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“During a period of war people act as in a fever and reasoning is impossible,” he wrote McAdoo.70 What mattered, he said, was to refute any insinuations of disloyalty and “leave no doubt in the people’s mind that the Administration has full confidence in an American citizen even though his cradle stood in Hamburg and even though his brothers are said to be influential friends of the Kaiser (I wish they were influential; many a thing would have remained undone in that case!).”71 To settle the matter, Paul told Colonel House that he would frame a letter to the president offering his resignation in such a manner that Wilson would feel free to make the right decision. The critical paragraph of his May 27, 1914, letter ran as follows: “Much to my regret, Mr.
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