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...hour after the President's announcement, Secretary Hull made a homespun statement of his own. Because of the war, he said, and its effects on neutrals, the U. S. had begun informal diplomatic conversations with neutral governments. He made it clear that these conversations involved no world plan for peace. But they were preliminary inquiries looking toward the establishment of a sound inter national economic system, a world-wide reduction of arms. Their chief aim: to provide economic stability after...
...boat from New York to Savannah. But the Mediterranean is a different matter. Flanked by suez and Gibraltar, it rests well under the British thumb, and so is a natural operating area for German U-boats. This stretch of water is bound to bring trouble to any neutral who dabbles in it, and none that gets out of it could be accused of over-cautiousness, America, having no vital interests there, can and should pull its fingers out of this fire...
...most unromantic proximity, and there was an imminent danger that the riot squad would have to be called out to resuscitate an aggressive little lady rapidly languishing in the midst of the press. Four determined looking Radcliffe girls were badgering a defenseless and bewildered football player into a neutral corner. And Vag doggedly circled the outskirts of the mob, looking for a weak spot to assail. Around him reared the walls of the edifice Mr. Woolworth had built of all the little nickels and times...
Chamberlain tried to comfort the home front, but his main theme was to reassure the neutrals suffering from the British blockade. "We do not for one moment question the rights of neutrals to decide whether they shall come into the conflict or stay out of it," he said. "But we do ask them, whether they be small or weak or whether they are great and powerful, to consider that though, in the exercise of our undisputed belligerent rights, we may have taken action which causes them inconvenience or even loss, at any rate we have never sunk a neutral ship...
Rumania continued last week to occupy the hottest neutral spot in Europe as Germany and the Allies continued to high-pressure her over oil. A Rumanian statesman once said, "Better give them oil than blood." But by last week Rumanian statesmen almost wished Rumania had no oil. It was beginning to smell of blood...