The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-07-24
REVIEWS DEMAND
ON GERMANY
United States Stands for Freedom of the Seas to
Be Maintained without Compromise and at Any
Cos" Any Further 0ffense Will Be Considered
Deliberately UnfriendIy"

WASHINGTON, July "a. - The note
presented at the German foreign office
by Ambassador Gerard yesterday, as
viewed in Washington, means that an
other submarine attack on American
life will result in q break between Ger
many and the United States.
The climax of President Wilson s
warning to Germany in regard to the
rights of Americans comes in the final
sentence of his note, as follows:
q Friendship itself prompts it (the
United States government to say to
the imperial government that repeti-
tion by the commanders of German
naval vessels of acts in contravention
of those rights must be regarded by the
government of the United States, when
they ATTEST American citizens, as DELHI
erately unfriendly.'
But that is not the only expression
through which President Wilson voices
the determination of himself and the
American people. He notifies Germany
that the United States will contend for
its rights as neutral ''without com
promise and at any cost. -
Practices of the German naval forces
such as have been protested by this
government, if persisted in, win consti-
tute an objectionable offence against
the sovereignty of any neutral nation
affected -
AS against these severe statements
there is feature of the note which
is expected to go far toward aLaying
the deep anti-American feeling that
| is likely to be aroused IN Germany The
President s warning that the United
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/ rights on the high seas without com.
promise and without cost > is made tC
I apply equally to Great Britain as wei
/ as to Germany. These rights viii be
protected EEfrom whatever quarter VIC
lated is the way Mr. Wilson puts it.
! There is no doubt that this viii bC
regarded, both in Germany and in tht
| United States as a promise on tho
| part of this government to deal as Wig
/ orously and insistentlv with British
/ violation of neutral rights on the higl
i seas as with those of Germany
i It often has been asserted that coul,
/ the German government and people 81
convinced that the United States GOV
ernment was sincerely trying only t,
| assert its rights and not to favor tn
allies as against Germany much of tn
resentment caused by the submarine is
sue would instantly disappear. This eN
precision was deliberately written int
the note with this phase of the Gcrma
attitude in mind
. There is still another feature Of tn
note in which the German governmcn
may find some cause for qualification
The President, in two paragraphs writ
6 ten by his own hand, adverts to the II
: marks of the German note of July
5 about the mutual interest of tn
: two governments In ''the freedom c
the seas and opens the way to Ge
: many to prove the sincerity of he
. statement that she really desires Ia
to prevail during this war.
Declaring that both governments al
= contending for the freedom of the sea
i the note invites the practical cooper;
S tion of the German government q;
:, this time when cooperation may a
| compGsh most
: Following is the full text of the not