Schiff on the European war reproduced above. Two days
later Dr. Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, who
is an old friend of Mr. Schiff, wrote him a letter of comment
on THE TIMES interview. This letter resulted in considerable
correspondence between the two. At the time this
correspondence was penned there was not the least thought in
the mind of either of the writers of giving the letters to the
public. It was simply an interchange of ideas between men who
had long known each other. When they were convinced, however,
that publication might serve a useful purpose in shaping
public opinion, both Mr. Schiff and Dr. Eliot cordially
assented to their being printed._
Dr. Eliot to Mr. Schiff.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 24, 1914.
Dear Mr. Schiff: It was a great relief to me to read just now your
interview in THE NEW YORK TIMES of Nov. 22, for I have been afraid that
your judgment and mine, concerning the desirable outcome of this
horrible war, were very different. I now find that at many points they
coincide.
One of my strongest hopes is that one result of the war may be the
acceptance by the leading nations of the world of the precept or
law--there shall be no world empire for any single nation.
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