The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-02
CALL BERLIN POLICY |
VICTORY FOR WILSON
London Editors Say President
Has Achieved a Great
Triumph.
DOUBT GERMANY'S INTENT
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LONDON Thursday, Sept. 2.-The
communication delivered by Ambassador
Won BernstorfY to Secretary OF state
Lansing at Washington has received the
greatest prominence in the British press,
but the opinion evoked is OF widely di-
vergent character and is OF course based
solely on such news as reached the edi-
torial workers at n relatively early
hour last night.
The paramount feature OF much OF the
comment IL n tribute TO the great diplo-
matte triumph President Wilson has
won. Many " the papers. however. do
not speak Of this side OF the subject and
one sharply critic!ses Mr.. Wilson.
The Times treats the news as incom-
plete and awaits tho full disclosure Of
Count Won Bernstorff's full instructions
with nuch curiosity. The paper does
not refer to the triumph with which
others credit Mr.. Wilson and ascribes
the German ~capitulation TO British naval
pressure.
at may not be unreasonable to sup
pose.' says the Times, that In view of
their losses and the consequent diff
Guilty Of providing adequate supply OF
trained submarine crews the German
authorities are not indisposed to make
virtue out OF n necessity"
Inc DultN f'NtUIupN ana SOME ONntT
papers MAKE a point OF the fact that
passenger liners are to be exempted.
which apparently In not to be the case
respecting other mercantile vessels. The
Daily Telegraph finds Il difficult 20 inn
agine that President Wilson will ac-
cept the proposal. as its acceptance
would leave merchant sailors under
American and other flags still exposed
TO the perils OF submarine attack.
III there is n whiting away of the
broad principle for which the United
states has been contending.' says this
paper. the world will he confronted with
a murderous condition at sea as a per-
mantnt menace In time OF war, for Ger
many has not a monopoly OF submarines.
The real principle at stake is one which
the ann concede unless they
abandon entirely their policy OF piracy.
Unless the Unit d States rcccdes from
the position hitherto maintained there is
no Alternative
The standard. IN commenting on the
German concessions to President VIII
sons demands, SAYS that the Presidents
patience and impresnable logic nave
won a great victory.
I'VE rejoice unfeignedly a: this t-l-
umph OF calm persistence and unhurried
frmness,' IL says. We rejoice al the
evidence thus given to the moral force
which the United States exercises in
the Affairs OF the world. President Will
sons success establishes "A principle
which will extend beyond the present
limits. and for that all humanity may
hank him"
The Daily Express says that Germany
has suffered ID defeat /" her war against
civilization. TIE steady pressure OF the
United States. says this paper. has forced
her without a shot being fired 10 break
dow ANONYMOUSLY.
I'VE do not attribute her change of
policy" the Express continues. 10 re-
p~entance. II Is merely the result OF
fear and failure. II Is a graphic tri-
umph FOR President Wilson's diplomacy.
but even a greater triumph for the I'm
perial German Chancellor. DR.. Won Beth
mann-H-llweg, who has long seen that
the policy OF frightfulness on the hlgh
seas vas n failure and a danger. Won
Bethm4nn-Hollweg's triumph Is accen-
tuated by the retirement OF .AdI iral
o Tirpitz,"
The Daily Nsws says;
III is much more than a decisive VIC
tory for President Wilson. 1t is a reve-
lation OF the internal position OF Ger
many. President Wilson may well take
satisfaction In having reestablished the
violated avs OF humanity"
The DdiiD Chronicle says
The concession, though exceedingly
limited, appears TO satisfy the American
Administration. II is quite insufficient
TO satisfy the principles laid down in
President Wilson's first Lusitania note.
but the third note seriously whitfield
those principles. and the German formula
differs from 1t only in combining TO liners
what President Wilson claimed for all
mercantile vessels. With his evident
eagerness to catch a any straw that
may preserve peace President Wilson
plainly will not press this difference, al
though the possibilities OF danger 10
humanity which the German formula
leaves open are great and obvious"
While admitting a sincere respect for
Mr.. Wilson'S motives the Chronicle
points to what, according to its infor-
nation. President Wilson comedies and
adds that the effect IL to give a quasi
international sanction to odious and IN
human practices never before sanctioned
by international law. The President, the
paper believes, purchases recantation
from the wrongdoer in one direction by
giving a chartered right to do wrong in
other directions.