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Robert Lansing, second Wilson Secretary of State : He might have stopped the German submarine attacks which he said brought the U. S. into the War. Instead he knuckled under to the Allies.
William Joel Stone of Missouri, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: He saw that Wilson and Lansing were siding with Britain against Germany, fought hard to restore the balance of neutrality. When Secretary Lansing privately argued that loss of life (German submarines) merited more drastic treatment than loss of...
Accordingly, the proposition was submitted secretly to the Allies, got a prompt, flat rejection from Foreign Secretary Grey. Aggrieved, Secretary Lansing wrote to the President: "It seems to me that the British Government expected us to denounce submarine warfare as inhuman and to deny the right to use submarines in...
With the Allied rejections in his pocket, Secretary Lansing put up a stern, uncompromising front when Germany's Ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff called at his office one day late in April 1916. A stenographer set down their conversation verbatim. Excerpts:
Lansing: Submarine warfare should stop against commercial vessels, unless visit & search is observed.