Show patience Pa fience and forbearance Forb ewance needed in dealing with warring nations dy HOBERT LANSING secretary of state tile the great war lias has caused so 0 o many conditions are arc entirely entirely y new and presented go ciany questions which I 1 were never before rinsed or even of that it i t has 1188 been no easy tusk task to meet and answer them thein the relations between neutrals and belligerents were never more difficult of adjustment it was never harder to preserve neutral rights from invasion by the desperate opponents in the titanic conflict in which tho the power if not the lift life of the great empires of the earth is at stake the peoples and governments at war are bli blinded in d c d by passion their opinions are unavoidably biased their conduct frequently influenced by hysterical impulses impulse a which approach to madness Ia patience tience and fonlk forbearance arance are arc esse essential antia to a neutral m in dealing with such buell nations acts which under normal conditions co din would bo be most offensive must ho be considered calmly and without wit it out temper 1 I ma alp ilp I 1 afo I 4 w |