Woodrow Wilson to Mary Eloise Hoyt

I don't wonder that you were concerned by what Miss Gould told you about the trend of things in Spain. I have known about it and have watched it with not a little anxiety, but, unfortunately, I have seen no way in which the influences at work there could be successfully offset, and I believe that the military danger of Spain is in fact very slight. There has in recent years been such complete disorganization and demoralization in Spain from the administrative point of view that she can do very little.

I am not minimizing the dangers, I am only explaining that there has been no feasible way to guard against them. The court circles of Spain have never been favorable to the Allies, the King is a weak intriguer, so far as I can make out, and there has never been any real foothold for Entente influences there. This is, in short, one of the many risks it is inevitable we should take, but I am none the less obliged to you for conveying to me the information which I know to be substantially true. I echo your wish that we might see you occasionally, but just now there doesn't seem to be any private life left for any of us. We must fight our way out of this jungle and then be normal human beings again.

In haste
Affectionately yours,
Woodrow Wilson


Miss Mary Hoyt,
609 Street,
Baltimore, Maryland.