Germany is pressing her hard.

Nothing will be finally decided until I return to Petrograd.

You see, I speak to you quite openly, for I myself have had some experience of your present statesmen.

I believe if you were to repeat this conversation to any one of them, if, even, you could open their eyes to what is happening, they would only shrug their shoulders and say that they relied for their protection on the League of Nations." "You are unhappily right," Nigel groaned, "yet one perseveres, and after all there is an element of mystery about the whole affair.

The French, as you know, have not imitated our blind credulity.