I will speak broadly.
There is the war party and there is the peace party.

I belong to the peace party.

I belong to it as a German, and I belong to it as a devoted friend of England, and if the threatened conflict between the two should come, I should take my stand as a peace-loving German-cum-Englishman against the war party even of my own country." Hunterleys still made no sign.

Yet for one who knew him it was easy to realise that he was listening and thinking with absorbed interest.
"So far," Draconmeyer pointed out, "I have laid my cards on the table.

I have told you the solemn truth.