The word was rapidly passed from guest to guest, and the American Ambassador and his wife soon found themselves the centre of a company which could hardly restrain itself in expressing its admiration for the United States.

Never in the history of the country had American prestige stood so high as on that night.

The King and the Prime Minister were especially affected by this display of fair-dealing in Washington.
The slight commercial advantage which Great Britain had obtained was not the thought that was uppermost in everybody's mind.

The thing that really moved these assembled statesmen and diplomats was the fact that something new had appeared in the history of legislative chambers.

A great nation had committed an outrageous wrong--that was something that had happened many times before in all countries.