With infinite effort he had achieved the astonishing diplomatic feat of inducing the Senate, with only six negative votes, to permit Great Britain to renounce, without equivalent, treaty rights which she had for fifty years defended tooth and nail.

经过不懈的努力，他取得了惊人的外交壮举，仅以六票反对票就使参议院允许英国在没有同等条件的情况下放弃她曾竭力捍卫了 50 年的条约权利。