The constant continuation of this method is throwing away the real regard and confidence of the British Government and of the British public--very fast, too.
I sometimes wish there were not a lawyer in the world.

I heard the President say once that it took him twenty years to recover from his legal habit of mind.

Well, his Administration is suffering from it to a degree that is pathetic and that will leave bad results for 100 years.
I suspect that in spite of all the fuss we have made we shall at last come to acknowledge the British blockade; for it is pretty nearly parallel to the United States blockade of the South during our Civil War.

The only difference is--they can't make the blockade of the Baltic against the traffic from the Scandinavian neutral states effective.

That's a good technical objection; but, since practically all the traffic between those States and Germany is in our products, much of the real force of it is lost.
If a protest is made against cotton being made contraband--it'll amount to nothing and give only irritation.