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The joint resolution adopted by Congress in April, 1917, declared a state of war to exist with Germany. Eighteen American ships had already been sunk by German attacks, and two hundred thirty-seven Americans had been killed. The attacks were not only on vessels of the United States. Piratical raids were uniformly aimed at everybody. One-third of the Norwegian commercial marine had been destroyed. In May, 1915, the Lusitania, a passenger ship, was sunk without warning, without giving any Chance for the safety of those on board. More than one thousand persons were drowned. Over one hundred of these were Americans, many of them women and little Children.
In these German attacks on neutral rights and safety there was no remote resemblance to the acts of the British navy. While it is true that American commerce with Germany was hindered and in a large measure prevented by the British naval blockade, at the same time not one American life had been lost, not one American ship had been destroyed. It was wholly a matter Of property. Each claim on the British govern ment resulting from the blockade could be settled by courts of law, and damages could be paid in money. The only immediate effect on Ameri can prosperity was perhaps that the profits Oi American business might be double rather than threefold what they had been before the war. Further, the question as to the unlawfulness of the British blockade at best was in doubt. Very likely a suit before a court of arbitration on that ground would have gone against the United States.
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The joint resolution adopted by Congress in April, 1917, declared a state of war to exist with Germany. Eighteen American ships had already been sunk by German attacks, and two hundred thirty-seven Americans had been killed. The attacks were not only on vessels of the United States. Piratical raids were uniformly aimed at everybody. One-third of the Norwegian commercial marine had been destroyed. In May, 1915, the Lusitania, a passenger ship, was sunk without warning, without giving any Chance for the safety of those on board. More than one thousand persons were drowned. Over one hundred of these were Americans, many of them women and little Children.
In these German attacks on neutral rights and safety there was no remote resemblance to the acts of the British navy. While it is true that American commerce with Germany was hindered and in a large measure prevented by the British naval blockade, at the same time not one American life had been lost, not one American ship had been destroyed. It was wholly a matter Of property. Each claim on the British govern ment resulting from the blockade could be settled by courts of law, and damages could be paid in money. The only immediate effect on Ameri can prosperity was perhaps that the profits Oi American business might be double rather than threefold what they had been before the war. Further, the question as to the unlawfulness of the British blockade at best was in doubt. Very likely a suit before a court of arbitration on that ground would have gone against the United States.
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