Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...received your telegram. The President has severed our diplomatic relations with Germany. He is entirely right in doing so. This is a measure demanded both by the honor and the safety of the United States. It is the first duty of every American to sustain the President in his action. If war should come it will be the duty of every man, young or old--a duty in which I know the men of Harvard will not fail--to do everything in his power to serve the country and to secure a victory in a contest which involves freedom...
...blockade England, but as an attempt to destroy her commerce by a host of raiders, we will be confronted by two facts. First, the submarines can make no provision for the safety of the crews of the vessels destroyed, and intend to sink merchant ships on sight. Such action of course is a direct repudiation of all German promises to America. The second apparent fact is that Germany has had the insolence to dictate to us just how many ships we may send to England, when they must arrive, what port they must sail to, and how they must...
...time for idle and vacant talk is long since past, yet the time for warlike action has not arrived. The need of the hour is for far-sighted plans which will lead on the action, or make hostile action unnecessary...
...pretext. From the standpoint of a neutral American, I cannot see that Germany's conduct during the entire war differs from that of England, except in one point: that Germany, in sinking British contraband, has sunk Americans who were in close proximity thereto. I did not uphold Germany's action at the time, but as an American I saw no good reason why my country should assume the responsibilities of war on the strength of that occurence. Having allowed that crisis to pass, what reasonable excuse have we now? Germany has done nothing. She has merely declared a blockade which...
...influence, I have not yet been jostled by a young American rushing to the colors to defend other people's interests. If only our older compatriots, weak of loins but mighty of mouth and pen, could be induced to go to the front and put their noble words into action, I think the rest of us would get along, quite well, and be content to mind our own American business. Nobody seems to know exactly what the flags in front of University Hall mean, but if they mean that the young men of Harvard are thirsting for anyone's blood...