Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Naval Reserve there is one of six different classes in which men may enter. All but Class 6, however, require special requirements for admission. The Fleet Naval Reserve, Class 1, is the 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...
...shocked at the prospect of war with Germany, and would have accepted any honorable settlement; but it would be dishonorable to allow our commerce to be destroyed or excluded from the high seas as the price of peace. The behavior of the officers and crews of the German merchant ships in our ports is one of the many proofs that it is impossible to preserve peace with a nation which so contemns the dignity, rights, and laws of the American Union...
...failure of the bill conferring or rather confirming the authority of the United States to cause American merchant vessels to arm themselves before leaving our ports, is a national misfortune, because it reveals the inability of the Senate of the United States to control itself. Insofar as it was intended to prevent war by suggesting a milder form of resistance, it would have failed of its purpose had it become law. Congress, and apparently the President without the aid of Congress, may grant this privilege to vessels likely to be exposed to submarine attack; but it cannot guarantee them...
...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 controversy down to a point where one side or the other must fire and fire first...
...which, in November, 1914, took the initiative in debarring the citizens of neutral nations from a portion of the European waters by setting aside a zone in the North Sea which, having been strewn with mines, neutrals were informed they would enter at their own risk? Suppose an American merchant vessel or passenger liner should decline to submit to such dictation, or, while engaged in non-contraband trade, en route for Hamburg or Bremen, or for some neutral European port, refused to regard the warning shot fired from a British vessel intent on its capture. In either case, would...