We assumed jurisdiction over the whole of the sea, which is a third as big as the Mediterranean, on the quite fantastic ground that it was an inland sea.

Ignoring the law that nobody has jurisdiction outside the three-mile limit from their shores, we seized Canadian vessels sixty miles from land.

In fact, we did virtually what we had gone to war with England for doing in 1812.

But England did not go to war.

She asked for arbitration.