However, it coupled this concession with an expression of its expectation that the United States would compel Great Britain to observe international law in the blockade.

As this latter statement might be interpreted as a qualification of its surrender, the incident hardly ended satisfactorily.
_To Arthur W.Page_ Bournemouth May 22, 1916.
DEAR ARTHUR: I stick on the back of this sheet a letter that Sydney Brooks wrote from New York (May 1st) to the _Daily Mail_.

He formulates a question that we have many times asked ourselves and that, in one way or other, comes into everybody's mind here.

Of course the common fellow in Jonesville who has given most of his time and energy to earning a living for his wife and children has no foreign consciousness, whether his Jonesville be in the United States or in England or in France or in Zanzibar.

The real question is, _Do_ these fellows in Jonesville make up the United States?
or has there been such a lack of prompt leadership as to make all the Jonesville people confused?
It's hard for me to judge at this distance just how far the President has led and just how far he has waited and been pushed along.