It is for you to end it." "Rubbish!" the other exclaimed hoarsely.

"You are attempting to saddle me with a responsibility like this, simply because my personal sympathies have always been on the side of the country you are representing." "It is not a question of your personal sympathies," Mr.Sidney returned swiftly.

"In black and white you pledged your Government to abstain from war against Germany." "How could I tell," the statesman protested, "that Germany was thinking of tearing up treaties, of entering into a campaign of sheer and scandalous aggression ?" "You made no stipulations or conditions in what you wrote," was the calm reply.

"You pledged your word that your Government would never declare war against Germany.

You alluded to the French entente as an unnatural one.