He sees nothing further than I have written.

He says to me often that if the United States could see its way to cease to protest against stopping war materials from getting into Germany, they could end the war more quickly--all this, of course, informally; and I say to him that the United States will consider any proposal you will make that does not infringe on a strict neutrality.

Violate a rigid neutrality we will not do.

And, of course, he does not ask that.

I give him more trouble than all the other neutral Powers combined; they all say this.