The profoundest moral judgment of the world is taking the strongest stand against Germany and German methods.

Such incidents as the burning of Louvain and other places, the slaughter of civilian populations, the outrages against women and children--outrages of such a nature that they cannot be printed, but which form a matter of common conversation everywhere--have had the result of arousing Great Britain to a mood of the grimmest determination.
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This message had hardly reached Washington when the peace effort of which it warned the President began to take practical form.

In properly estimating these manoeuvres it must be borne in mind that German diplomacy always worked underground and that it approached its negotiations in a way that would make the other side appear as taking the initiative.

This was a phase of German diplomatic technique with which every European Foreign Office had long been familiar.

Count Bernstorff arrived in the United States from Germany in the latter part of August, evidently with instructions from his government to secure the intercession of the United States.