Of course, I'm working, as always, to soften the relations between these two governments.

So far, in spite of the pretty deep latent feeling on both sides--far worse than it ought to be and far worse than I wish it were--I'm working all the time to keep things as smooth as possible.

Happily, nobody can prove it, but I believe it, that there is now and there has been all along more danger of a serious misunderstanding than anybody has known.

The Germans have, of course, worked in 1000 ways to cause misunderstanding between England and the United States.
Then, of course, there has been constant danger in the English bull-headed insularity which sees nothing but the Englishman's immediate need, and in the English slowness.

Add to these causes the American ignorance of war and of European conditions.