That, I confess, made me feel better.
As nearly as I can make out, the highwater mark of English good-feeling toward us in all our history was after the President's Panama tolls courtesy.

The low-water mark, since the Civil War, I am sure, is now.

The Cleveland Venezuela message came at a time of no nervous strain and did, I think, produce no long-lasting effect.

A part of the present feeling is due to the English conviction that we have been taken in by the Germans in the submarine controversy, but a large part is due to the lack of courtesy in this last Note--the manner in which it was written even more than its matter.

As regards its matter, I have often been over what I conceive to be the main points with Sir Edward Grey--very frankly and without the least offense.