Besides, Germany now has a representative on the League of Nations.

She is bound to toe the line with the rest." "It is not in Germany alone that we are disliked," Maggie reminded him.
"We seem somehow or other to have found our way into the bad books of every country in Europe.

Clumsy statesmanship is it, or what ?" "I should attribute it," Nigel replied, "to the passing of our old school of ambassadors.

After all, ambassadors are born, not made, and they should be--they very often were--men of rare tact and perceptions.
We have no one now to inform us of the prejudices and humours of the nations.

We often offend quite unwittingly, and we miss many opportunities of a _rapprochement_.