Assuming that the President sent the Kaiser's message to the King, this may be a suggested informal answer--that if the offer be extended to give France and Russia what they want, it will be considered, etc.

This may or may not be true.

Alas! the fact that I know nothing about the offer has no meaning; for the State Department never informs me of anything it takes up with the British Ambassador in Washington.

Well, I'll see.
* * * * * These were therefore the reasons why Colonel House had decided to go to Europe and enter into peace negotiations with the warring powers.
Colonel House was wise in taking all possible precautions to conceal the purpose of this visit.

His letter intimates that the German Government was eager to have him cross the ocean on this particular mission; it discloses, on the other hand, that the British Government regarded the proposed negotiations with no enthusiasm.