But for your solemn words pledging your country to neutrality, Germany would never have forced the issue as she has done.

Now it is for you to repair the evil.
I tell you that we want peace.

The first overtures may come ostensibly through Washington, if you will, but they must come in reality from you." The Minister leaned back in his chair.

His was the calmness of despair.
"You might as well ask me," he said simply, "to order our Fleet out of the North Sea." Mr.Sidney rose to his feet.
"I think," he advised, "that you had better try what you can do, Lord Romsey.

We shall give you little time.