Now to come through this enormous war even with no worse feeling than already exists between the two countries--that'll be a big thing to have done.

But it's work like the work of the English fleet.

Nobody can prove that Jellicoe has been a great admiral.

Yet the fleet has done the whole job more successfully than if it had had sea-fights and lost a part of their ships.
Our Note has left a great deal of bad feeling--suppressed, but existent.

A part of it was inevitable and (I'd say) even necessary.
But we put in a lot of things that seem to me to be merely disputatious, and we didn't write it in the best form.