I haven't liked the idea of establishing a new department.

I don't think the death of General Wood will make any difference about the administration of the insular affairs.

I have done it regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary.

As the conference knows, I have been rather more interested in the consolidation of departments already established than of establishing any new ones.

Quite naturally I thought I would like to confide it to the newspapermen first.

I do not expect that the failure to reach an agreement at Geneva will have any serious effect upon the peace of the world.

I don't know of any new developments in China that would change the views that I expressed in an address I made in New York on, I think, the 27th of April relative to our policy there.

I do not know just how many Americans we have in China.

It is too early to tell just what will be the effect of the conference we held.

Now, whether those proposals may be modified as the result of conference and discussion, I don't know.

Well, it is close to that.

I told him I would take it under consideration and expressed the hope that I might be able to attend.