Whether it was dispatched and held up on the way, or what became of it I never knew.

It is said never to have reached Berlin.
A warlike speech by Asquith on September 27 appears to be connected with this unsuccessful attempt, and served to calm the Allies.
It appears extremely doubtful to me, however, whether this advance would have led to anything, had the occasion been more favourable.

The previously mentioned letter of the Imperial Chancellor Michaelis dates from those August days, a letter referring to Belgian projects which were very far removed from the English ideas on the subject.

And even if it had been possible to settle the Belgian question, there would have been that of Alsace-Lorraine, which linked France and England together, and, first and foremost, the question of disarmament.

The chasm that divided the two camps would have grown so wide that no bridge could possibly have spanned it.
Not until January, 1918, did I learn the English version.