"I think the true answer is that the Copenhagen Legation attitude is a reflex of our Foreign Office attitude. But _if London is mild, Copenhagen is puny_; if London is a lamb, Copenhagen is a sucking dove." On January 13th, 1916, the following paragraph appeared in the _Globe_: "We cannot disregard the startling and amazing figures collected in Denmark by the Special Commissioner sent out by the _Daily Mail_. "Of course, all these commodities are consigned to Danish purchasers, under guarantees that they are not intended for the enemy. What purposes these guarantees serve except to hold harmless the vessels in which the articles are conveyed we are at a loss to understand. "No sane person will believe that the Danish people have suddenly developed such a passion for pork that they must increase their consumption by 1,300 per cent., or that every man, woman and child in Denmark requires the daily bath in cocoa with which the 23,000 tons they now import would appear to be intended to provide them. _The only possible inference from these figures is that we are being deluded, and are feeding Germany_ in our own despite." The _Pall Mall Gazette_ of January 18th, 1916, said: "Revelations like these can only be described as heart-breaking to the men and women who have given their sons and brothers and husbands to the end that Germany may be brought to her knees. Now they find that some malign spell has paralysed the Navy's arm so that, instead of Germany's foreign supplies being cut off, they are in some vital respects more abundant than ever." The _Quarterly Review_, January, 1916, contains a powerful article on "The Danish Agreement." It suggests how _some blight has been at work in our Foreign Office for years steadily undermining our mastery of the sea_. One paragraph bears particularly on the present point: "No informed man doubts that the winter of 1916-17 must weaken to a marked degree, through lack of food, Germany's armed resistance, always assuming that she is not supplied through neutral countries. The existence of England depends on her victory over Germany. Her victory over Germany depends on the cutting off of neutral supplies. Therefore the existence of England depends on the cutting off of neutral supplies. But _when_, in August, 1914, _the Cabinet and, above all, the Foreign Office, were confronted by this great possibility of stratagem every psychological force was set in motion against its adoption_."