It has made the masses angry--which is of far less importance than the severe sorrow that our discourtesy of manner has brought to our friends--I fear to all considerate and thoughtful Englishmen.
Let me illustrate: When the Panama tolls controversy arose, Taft ceased to speak the language of the natural man and lapsed into lawyer's courthouse zigzagging mutterings.

Knox wrote a letter to the British Government that would have made an enemy of the most affectionate twin brother--all mere legal twists and turns, as agreeable as a pocketful of screws.

Then various bovine "international lawyers" wrote books about it.

I read them and became more and more confused the further I went: you always do.

It took me some time to recover from this word-drunk debauch and to find my own natural intelligence again, the common sense that I was born with.