Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...other hand suppose the submarine gets near enough to discharge a torpedo or a gun if the vessel is thereby sunk, that is the overt act for which the United States has been waiting. If there is any opportunity, our armed ship presumably will reply and war would begin then and there; but in this case demonstrably by the act of the Germans...
...till tomorrow what seems obnoxious today. But war will not be put off. . . . We are now so near war that the sinking of one American ship, the wanton destruction of American lives, would draw us inevitably into the maelstrom." Since that date the second American ship has been sunk and other American lives destroyed but we are not yet at war. The cocksureness of the CRIMSON has not even pulled...
...Ambulance Field Service Headquarters that every precaution will be taken. This may well mean that the ship will be convoyed throughout its voyage, although no definite promise has been made to that effect. The passage is from New York to Bordeaux, a route on which no liner has been sunk...
...Peace Union wishes to discountenance our citizens on belligerent vessels laden with contraband. Have they not heard that all vessels--neutral and belligerent, regardless of cargo or anything else--are to be sunk on sight...
...noted that they are sailing on a French ship. There are no American liners now on the Atlantic. If Germany should do as she says she will do, and that liner is sunk, will any of the false sophistries with which some men have blinded themselves suffice us then? Will we say, remembering those young men as our friends and our compatriots, that Germany was "justified"? Will we say that the laws of war or the laws of existence permit the sacrifice of the citizens of neutral nations...