They predict that nothing will come of the _Ancona_ case, nor of any other case.

Nobody wants us to get into the war--nobody who counts--but they are losing respect for us because we seem to them to submit to anything.
We've simply dropped out.

No English person ever mentions our Government to me.

But they talk to one another all the time about the political anaemia of the United States Government.

They think that Bernstorff has the State Department afraid of him and that the Pacifists dominate opinion--the Pacifists-at-any-price.