"I'll go," said he, "if you are perfectly sure my going will be agreeable to the President." He himself recalled the fact, during one of our several conversations just before he left, that you had not come when he and Lord Grey had invited you.

If you had come, by the way, this era of a better understanding would have begun then, and half our old troubles would then have been removed.

Keeping away from one another is the best of all methods of keeping all old misunderstandings alive and of making new ones.
I have no doubt that Mr.Balfour's visit will cause visits of many first-class British statesmen during the war or soon afterward.
That's all we need to bring about a perfect understanding.
You may remember how I tried to get an official report about the behaviour of the _Benham_[58], and how, in the absence of that, Lord Beresford made a disagreeable speech about our Navy in the House of Lords, and how, when months later you sent me Roosevelt's[59] letter, Lord Beresford expressed regret to me and said that he would explain in another speech.

I hadn't seen the old fellow for a long time till a fortnight ago.

He greeted me cheerily, and I said, "I don't think I ought to shake hands with you till you retract what you said about our navy." He insisted on my dining with him.