They feel that we have dropped out of a position of influence in the world.
I needn't and can't write more.

Of course there are more important things than English respect.

But the English think that every Power has lost respect for us--the Germans most of all.

And (unless the President acts very rigorously and very quickly) we'll have to get along a long time without British respect.
W.H.P.
P.S.The last Zeppelin raid--which interrupted the game of cards--killed more than twenty persons and destroyed more than seven million dollars' worth of private business property--all non-combatants! W.H.P.
_To Edward M.House_ 21st of September, 1915.
DEAR HOUSE: The insulting cartoon that I enclose (destroy it without showing it) is typical of, I suppose, five hundred that have appeared here within a month.

This represents the feeling and opinion of the average man.