And English depression will vanish with a turn of the military tide.

If it had been Bernstorff instead of Dumba--_that_ would have affected even the English judgment of us.

Tyrrell[22] remarked to me--did I write you?
"Think of the freaks of sheer, blind Luck; a man of considerable ability like Dumba caught for taking a risk that an idiot would have avoided, and a fool like Bernstorff escaping!" Then he added: "I hope Bernstorff will be left.

No other human being could serve the English as well as he is serving them." So, you see, even in his depression the Englishman has some humour left--e.g., when that old sea dog Lord Fisher heard that Mr.
Balfour was to become First Lord of the Admiralty, he cried out: "Damn it! he won't do: Arthur Balfour is too much of a gentleman." So John Bull is now, after all, rather pathetic--depressed as he has not been depressed for at least a hundred years.

The nobility and the common man are doing their whole duty, dying on the Bosphorus or in France without a murmur, or facing an insurrection in India; but the labour union man and the commercial class are holding hack and hindering a victory.