He hauls her up and tries her in court--that's his tone.
Now the relations that I have established with Sir Edward Grey have been built up on frankness, fairness and friendship.

I can't have relations of any other sort nor can England and the United States have relations of any other sort.

This is the place we've got to now.

Lansing seems to assume that the way to an amicable agreement is through an angry controversy.
Lansing's method is the trouble.

He treats Great Britain, to start with, as if she were a criminal and an opponent.