No government could fall lower in English opinion than we shall fall if more notes are sent to Austria or to Germany.

The only way to keep any shred of English respect is the immediate dismissal without more parleying of every German and Austrian official at Washington.

Nobody here believes that such an act would provoke war.
"I can do no real service by mincing matters.

My previous telegrams and letters have been purposely restrained as this one is.

We have now come to the parting of the ways.