Word: englanders
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...international law of the British blockade and the proposed submarine blockade. International law has always refused to acknowledge the validity of a paper blockade. The German submarine blockade can never be anything but a paper blockade for the very nature of the submarine makes it impossible to surround England with a cordon of blockaders. The submarine is easy prey for a warship and hence it must keep on the move. And Germany, according to international law, has no right to forbid neutrals to trade with England until an actual blockade is established...
...England, on the other hand, has established an effective blockade. She has not filled the North Sea with a host of commerce raiders (which is what the submarines are) but has drawn a cordon around Germany's ports. And haying established a real blockade England can, under international law, refuse to allow neutrals to trade with Germany. England has at times overstepped her rights but American pocketbooks, not American lives, have suffered. America may be a land of dollar-worshippers, but there is a finer sense left in us yet which for once has made us look beyond our purses...
...regard the new submarine activity not as an attempt to 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...
...arms? If we had declared war on Germany at the 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...
...South does not want war. The West does not want war. And even in New England, saturated as it is with British 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...