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To get rid of secret diplomacy is more difficult in Europe than in
America, whose relations with foreign States are fewer and simpler, but
what you say upon that subject also will find a sympathetic echo here
among the friends of freedom and of peace. I am always sincerely yours,
JAMES BRYCE.
Forest Row, Sussex, Sept. 17, 1914.


A Reply by Dr. Francke
Professor of the History of German Culture at Harvard
University and Curator of the Germanic Museum; author of works
on German literature.

_To the Editor of The New York Times:_
In his letter of Sept. 1 President Eliot expresses the opinion that in
the present war "England, France, and Russia are fighting for freedom
and civilization." And he adds:
It does not follow that thinking Americans will forget the
immense services which Germany has rendered to civilization
during the last hundred years, or desire that her power to
serve letters, science, art, and education should be in the
least abridged in the outcome of this war, upon which she has
entered so rashly and selfishly and in so barbarous a spirit.


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