And, if she be let alone, she'll do it in a way to give us the very least annoyance possible; for she'll go any length to keep our friendship and good will.

And _she has not confiscated a single one of our cargoes even of unconditional contraband_.

She has stopped some of them and bought them herself, but confiscated not one.

All right; what do we do?
We set out on a comprehensive plan to regulate the naval warfare of the world and we up and ask 'em all, "Now, boys, all be good, damn you, and agree to the Declaration of London." "Yah," says Germany, "if England will." Now Germany isn't engaged in naval warfare to count, and she never even paid the slightest attention to the Declaration all these years.

But she saw that it would hinder England and help her now, by forbidding England to stop certain very important war materials from reaching Germany.