The great English-speaking nations will be able to control the details of the peace and this without any formal alliance.

There will be an incalculable saving of human life and of treasure.

Such an act will make it possible for Germany to give in honourably and with good grace because the whole world will be against her.

Her bankrupt and blockaded people will bring such pressure to bear that the decision will be hastened.
The sympathies of the American people will be brought in line with the Administration.
If we settle the _Lusitania_ question by compromising in any way your original demands, or if we permit it to drag on longer, America can have no part in bringing the war to an end.

The current of allied opinion will run so strongly against the Administration that no censorship and no friendly interference by an allied government can stem the distrust of our Government which is now so strong in Europe.
We shall gain by any further delay only a dangerous, thankless, and opulent isolation.