How many have the English caught and destroyed?
That's the main question, after all.

The English view may not be fair to them.

But nobody here believes that they will long abstain from the luxury of crime." It is thus apparent that when the Germans practically demanded, as a price of their abstention from indiscriminate submarine warfare, that Mr.Wilson should move against Great Britain in the matter of the blockade, they realized the futility of any such step, and that what they really expected to obtain was the presidential mediation for peace.
President Wilson at once began to move in this direction.

On May 27th, three weeks after the Sussex "pledge," he made an address in Washington before the League to Enforce Peace, which was intended to lay the basis for his approaching negotiations.

It was in this speech that he made the statement that the United States was "not concerned with the causes and the objects" of the war.