He said that that seemed to him a mistake.

"The Government doesn't know America--neither does the British public.

Neither does the American Government (no American government) know the British.

Hence your government writes too many notes--all governments are likely to write too many notes.

Everybody gets tired of seeing them and they lose their effect." He mentioned the blockade and said that it had become quite effective--wonderfully effective, in fact; and he implied that he did not see why we now failed to recognize it.