Their movement is strong.

Germany is abstaining from outrages that would raise American feeling.

I say, the danger of peace proposals which we could not accept being offered to America and accepted by her is a real and a very serious one.
"Hence it is that the Government, the diplomatic service, and all connected with our foreign affairs are feverishly anxious as to the result of our deliberations.

If we break down in despair and helplessness, God only knows how terrible and far-reaching may be the consequence.
"Far better for us and for the Empire never to have met than to have met and failed of an agreement.
"Finally, what would be the effect of a breakdown at the front?
"We are called upon on all sides of this ancient quarrel to make what people call sacrifices--sacrifices of inherited predilections, of old-world ideas, and of ancient shibboleths, of perhaps ingrained prejudice.

I would be ashamed to speak of the surrender of such things as sacrifices, when I remember the kind of sacrifices our brave boys have made and are making this very hour while we are safe at home talking.