Word: neutrality
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...view of the widespread and persistent failure to understand the position of those who argue for the maintenance of our neutrality in connection with the crisis in our relations with Germany, it seems fitting to reiterate a few of the more important reasons for this course of action. These are based on an estimate of the entire maritime situation, as opposed to a consideration of the maritime warfare waged solely by one of the belligerents--unfortunately the view on which are based, apparently, the conclusions of the majority of those who undertake to judge Germany's submarine warfare. The proverbial...
...Germany declares, to be sure, that the lives of Americans entering the recently established war zone are thereby endangered, and repudiates all respon- sibility for their safety. But have we forgotten that it was the British Admiralty 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...
Finally, are we justified in asserting that national honor requires that we should plunge into war with Germany in view of the example set by the five neutral nations of Europe, whose sense of honor not only does not dictate an appeals to arms, but does not even demand the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany? KENNETH G. DARLING...
...President said to Congress on February 3d that he had severed diplomatic relations with Germany because Germany had broken her agreement with the United States, and that such a course was the only one possible to the maintenance of American honor. Now, the Harvard Union for American Neutrality is in itself a repudiation of the President's brave words, for the United States is not now neutral, even officially, and this Union, hearing that the President takes an important step to preserve honor, has the supreme effrontery to say that "honor is not at stake...
...five nurses. That hospital has been maintained by Harvard folk ever since; they go out and serve for three months at a time. Harvard also sent an expedition to fight typhus in Serbia. Harvard's casualty list in consequence has grown pretty long. Not a bad record for one neutral university, eh? I don't seem to remember your Oxford or Cambridge sending out a medical unit to help us when we were fighting for a moral issue, back in the 'sixties, under Lincoln...