I've tried to take and to busy myself with a long-range view of great subjects.

The British Empire and the United States will be here long after we are dead, and their relations will continue to be one of the most important matters--perhaps the most important matter--in the world.

Well, now think of Lichtenstein's bill! To get back where I started--I fear, therefore, that, when I next meet the Admiral of the Grand Fleet (with whom I used to discuss everything quite freely before he sailed away to the war), he may forget to mention that we may have his 3,000 ships at our need.
Since this present difference is in danger of losing the healing influence of a kindly touch--has become an uncourteous monster of 35 heads and 3 appendices--I see no early end of it.

The British Foreign Office has a lot of lawyers in its great back offices.

They and our lawyers will now butt and rebut as long as a goat of them is left alive on either side.