[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II CHAPTER XV 46/48
We shall not recover for many a long, long year.
The identical indictment could have been drawn with admirable temper and the way laid down for arbitration and for keeping our interpretation of the law and precedents intact--all done in a way that would have given no offense. The feeling runs higher and higher every day--goes deeper and spreads wider. Now on top of it comes the _Ancona_[15].
The English press, practically unanimously, makes sneering remarks about our Government.
After six months it has got no results from the _Lusitania_ controversy, which Bernstorff is allowed to prolong in secret session while factories are blown up, ships supplied with bombs, and all manner of outrages go on (by Germans) in the United States.
The English simply can't understand why Bernstorff is allowed to stay.
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