They will not yield on that point, and they will regard our protests as really inspired by German influence--thus far at least: that the German propaganda has organized and encouraged the commercial objection in the United States, and that this propaganda and the peace-at-any-price sentiment demand a stiff controversy with England to offset the stiff controversy with Germany; and, after all, they ask, what does a stiff controversy with the United States amount to?
I had no idea that English opinion could so quickly become practically indifferent as to what the United States thinks or does.

And as nearly as I can make it out, there is not a general wish that we should go to war.

The prevalent feeling is not a selfish wish for military help.

In fact they think that, by the making of munitions, by the taking of loans, and by the sale of food we can help them more than by military and naval action.

Their feeling is based on their disappointment at our submitting to what they regard as German dallying with us and to German insults.