The Archbishop last night asked me in an apprehensive tone whether the American Government and public felt that the British did not sufficiently show their gratitude.

I told him that we did not come into the war to win compliments but to whip the enemy, and that we wanted all the help the British can give: that's the main thing; and that thereafter of course we liked appreciation, but that expressions of appreciation had not been lacking.

Mr.Balfour and Sir Edward Carson also spoke to me yesterday much in the same tone as the Archbishop of Canterbury.
"Try to think out any line of action that one will, or any future sequence of events or any plan touching the war, one runs into the question whether the British are doing the best that could be done or are merely plugging away.

They are, as a people, slow and unimaginative, given to over-much self-criticism; but they eternally hold on to a task or to a policy.

Yet the question forever arises whether they show imagination, to say nothing of genius, and whether the waste of a slow, plodding policy is the necessary price of victory.
"Of course such a question is easy to ask and it is easy to give dogmatic answers.