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...merchant-marine class. Class 2 and Class 3 require, for admittance in any other rating than as an officer, previous experience in the merchant marine; to be an officer it is necessary to have served at least two years as officer on board an ocean on sea-going vessel. Class 5 is the Naval Reserve Flying Corps. The Navy Department has not enough sea-planes and instructors at present to allow novices to enter this class...
...vessels should clear our ports they would be captured by the British as soon as they were outside the three-mile limit, or they would be sunk by their commanders to escape capture. Any vessel which by chance slipped through the blockade would without doubt attempt to supply submarines or other warships, and to co-operate with them in attacks on American ships and coasts...
...other hand suppose the submarine gets near enough to discharge a torpedo or a gun if the vessel is thereby sunk, that is the overt act for which the United States has been waiting. If there is any opportunity, our armed ship presumably will reply and war would begin then and there; but in this case demonstrably by the act of the Germans...
...third alternative is that the American vessel will speed up and run out of danger, in which case the question of arms or no arms will play no part...
...called armed neutrality is simply a method by which the United States may possibly induce the Germans to let armed vessels loaded with munitions escape, though under our previous practice unarmed vessels carrying contraband were liable to be sunk with notice. The sole alternative is for the Germans to fire upon a vessel prepared to fight and expected to reply with force. Therefore, apparently the only thing that can obviate war is for the Germans to forego their announced purpose of sinking every merchant ship that comes within the barred zone. Short of that, armed neutrality simply brings the whole...