It Broadens the Mind.

From everyone the author have talked to in London, no matter what his political opinions, he get the impression that England has been losing her nerve. Many Americans "fear Germany" but they have no conception of the immediacy of that fear as the Englishman feels it, nor do they, as he does, contemplate the possibility of actual conquest in the near future. England has lost the old sense that she is invincible. She had been losing it bit by bit for several years and the collapse of sanctions was the final blow, not only to pride but to self-confidence as well. And the most significant fact is that her people are united in their humiliation it in nothing else.