Word: merchants
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...throw ourselves into the conflict and avenge the death of these blockade-runners by the sacrifice of a thousand times their number--doubtless the dead will rest easier in their graves. I us retaliate for our loss of ships by offering our entire merchant marine, out of the war-zone as well as in, as food for submarines. Let us paralyze our country's life and ideals by adopting universal military service--by all means! Why can we not weigh the issue? If it is humanity, will not more American lives be lost in war than by conditions...
Three-mile run: J. T. Nightingale, New Hampshire State College; R. P. Green, B. A. A.; J. Hennigan, Dorchester A. A.; A. F. Merchant, B. A. A.; R. K. Brown, Colby...
Because on May 4, 1916, the German Government replied that 'in accordance with the general principles of visit and search and the destruction of merchant vessels recognized by international law such vessels, both within and without the area declared a naval war zone, shall not be sunk without warning and without saving human lives unless the ship attempts to escape or offer resistance...
...must prepare by arming our merchant, vessels, or by convoy and patrol, to give to our people that protection from submarine attack that we have promised them. We must associate ourselves, if the attack comes, with that naval power which alone is capable of reinforcing our efforts and of making them effective. We must prepare for whatever eventualities an impending state of war makes probable. We must train and equip our citizens so that our policy as it develops shall be not only firm but united and powerful...
...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 port they must sail...