Letter from Shane Leslie (St Johnsbury, Vermont [United States]) to Aunt Jane [Lady Randolph Churchill] in which he expresses pleasure at WSC's appointment [as Minister of Munitions] and comments on support in the United States for WSC's policy in Gallipoli and view that WSC is "seven eighths Yankee and one eighth Blenheim"; discusses the actions of [President Woodrow] Wilson regarding Germany and the impressive power of [William] Bourke [Cockran] as an orator.