You fellers who have universities must work a real alliance--a big job here.

But to go on.
The best informed English opinion is ripe for a complete working understanding with us.

We've got to work up our end--get rid of our ignorance of foreign affairs, our shirt-sleeve, complaining kind of diplomacy, our sport of twisting the lion's tail and such things and fall to and bring the English out.

It's the _one_ race in this world that's got the guts.
Hear this in confirmation: I suppose 1,000 English women have been to see me--as a last hope--to ask me to have inquiries made in Germany about their "missing" sons or husbands, generally sons.
They are of every class and rank and kind, from marchioness to scrubwoman.

Every one tells her story with the same dignity of grief, the same marvellous self-restraint, the same courtesy and deference and sorrowful pride.