If there be any obligation to please, the obligation is on her to please us.

And she feels and sees it now.
My point is not that, nor is it what we or any other neutral nation has done or may do--Holland or any other.

This war is the direct result of the over-polite, diplomatic, standing-aloof, bowing-to-one-another in gold lace, which all European nations are guilty of in times of peace--castes and classes and uniforms and orders and such folderol, instead of the proper business of the day.

Every nation in Europe knew that Germany was preparing for war.

If they had really got together--not mere Hague Sunday-school talk and resolutions--but had really got together for business and had said to Germany, "The moment you fire a shot, we'll all fight against you; we have so many millions of men, so many men-of-war, so many billions of money; and we'll increase all these if you do not change your system and your building-up of armies"-- then there would have been no war.
My point is not sentimental.