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ligious! journal in Berlin, the &quot;Kreuz-Zeitung.&quot; Still, 

 it is pleasant to see that eminent newspaper find, for a 

 time, some other object of denunciation than the United 

 States. 



June 3. 



In the afternoon drove to Scheveningen and took tea 

 with Count Minister and his daughter. He was somewhat 

 pessimistic, as usual, but came out very strongly in favor 

 of the American view as regards exemption of private 

 property on the high seas. Whether this is really because 

 Germany would derive profit from it, or because she 

 thinks this question a serviceable entering wedge between 

 the United States and Great Britain, there is no telling 

 at present. I am sorry to say that our hopes regarding 

 it are to be dashed, so far as the present conference is 

 concerned. Sundry newspaper letters and articles in the 

 Times &quot; show clearly that the English Government is 

 strongly opposed to dealing with it here and now; and as 

 France and Kussia take the same position, there is no 

 hope for any action, save such as we can take to keep 

 the subject alive and to secure attention to it by some 

 future conference. 



