We had as well get down to facts.

So far as ensuring peace is concerned the biggest fact in the world is the British fleet.

The next biggest fact is the American fleet, because of itself and still more because of the vast reserve power of the United States which it implies.

If these two fleets perfectly understand one another about the undesirability of wars of aggression, there'll be no more big wars as long as this understanding continues.

Such an understanding calls for no treaty--it calls only for courtesy.
And there is no other peace-basis worth talking about--by men who know how the world is governed.
Since I have lived here I have spent my days and nights, my poor brain, and my small fortune all most freely and gladly to get some understanding of the men who rule this Kingdom, and of the women and the customs and the traditions that rule these men--to get their trick of thought, the play of their ideals, the working of their imagination, the springs of their instincts.