Next came the action of Lord Cromer, and finally that moment in Manila Bay when England took her stand by our side and Germany saw she would have to fight us both, if she fought at all.
If you saw any German or French papers at the time of our troubles with Spain, you saw undisguised hostility.

If you have talked with any American who was in Paris during that April of 1898, your impression will be more vivid still.

There was an outburst of European hate for us.

Germany, France, and Austria all looked expectantly to England--and England disappointed their expectations.

The British Press was as much for us as the French and German press were hostile; the London Spectator said: "We are not, and we do not pretend to be, an agreeable people, but when there is trouble in the family, we know where our hearts are." In those same days (somewhere about the third week in April, 1898), at the British Embassy in Washington, occurred a scene of significance and interest, which has probably been told less often than that interview between Mr.Balfour and the Kaiser's emissary in London.