Word: neutralities
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...broad question of freedom of the seas is mainly the question of the rights of neutral ships during war. President Hoover has suggested, as an immediate and concrete step, that neutral ships carrying food for civilian populations, and food only, shall be given the same immunity now enjoyed by hospital ships. The more obvious argument for this step is mercy, humanity. It is seen in terms of mercy only, by most of those who advocate it or discuss...
...martial spirit, year in and year out, in peace time as well as war time). Treating food as a contraband makes for war also among nations likely to be in the business of supplying food; the challenging and invading of what we deemed our rights as a neutral shipper caused President Wilson in 1916 to make a plea for "incomparably the greatest navy in the world." Had ships carrying food then enjoyed the same immunity as hospital ships, it is possible that the area of the Great War might have been more circumscribed. Every nation whose economic status includes...
...without doubt "scooped" the Lampoon in a thoroughly satisfactory manner. I personally enjoyed the column so much that I hesitate even to hint that though the treatment of the subject was excellent, the satire directed against Professor Coolidge was, to say the least, harmful to the development of a neutral attitude toward the House Plan...
...This assumption is no longer valid as regards states which are members of the League of Nations and parties to the Kellogg Pact. . . . In other words, as between members of the League there can be no neutral rights, because there can be no neutrals...
Nowhere did the testimony show that Lobbyist Lakin had actually obtained anything from the White House by Mr. Shattuck's employment. The President had evidently remained strictly neutral. The Lakin lobby letters were simply a salesman's reports to his employers...