Word: contrabanding
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...rights, is manifestly impossible, since we should be obliged to challenge practically the whole of Europe. Granting that Germany, by her submarine warfare, is contravening the principles of international law, what shall we say of the Orders in Council issued by the British Admiralty, whereby neutral cargoes of non-contraband goods are seized, in spite of the solemn guarantees of the Declaration of London, in which England and other signatories bound themselves to respect the non-contraband character of such goods? The recognition of the restrictions which would be imposed on American trade and passenger traffic if we were...
...Peace Union wishes to discountenance our citizens on belligerent vessels laden with contraband. Have they not heard that all vessels--neutral and belligerent, regardless of cargo or anything else--are to be sunk on sight...
...time the Lusitania was sunk, we might have claimed at least a man's-size 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...
...Lowell Lecture. "Contraband," by Professor G. G. Wilson, at 491 Boyston street, Boston...
October 29.--"Contraband...