They will go--they are going--the full length to keep it.

But, in proportion to our tendency to nag them about little things will the value set on our friendship diminish and will their confidence in our sincerity decline." * * * * * The note which Lord Bryce and Lord Northcliffe so dreaded reached the London Embassy in October, 1915.

The State Department had spent nearly six months in preparing it; it was the American answer to the so-called blockade established by the Order in Council of the preceding March.
Evidently its contents fulfilled the worst forebodings: _To Edward M.House_ London, November 12, 1915.
DEAR HOUSE: I have a great respect for the British Navy.

Admiral Jellicoe now has under his command 3,000 ships of all sorts-far and away the biggest fleet, I think, that was ever assembled.

For the first time since the ocean was poured out, one navy practically commands all the seas: nothing sails except by its grace.