The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-06-06
britain RESENTS
insult TO U. 5,
London Does Not Believe that
America Would Accept Cash
Compensation.
CAFES AS GAY AS EVER
London Is Accused of Disgusting
Levity." While Paris Re-
ceives Praise.
CAFES AS GAY AS EVER

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SIecial Gable to The Washington Herald
London, June 5.-The general feeling
of disappointment or even resentment
which was manifested here at the first
moment when 1t became known that the
United States would not declare war
against Germany because Of \be Lusi-
tania affair has now entirely disappeared
Unbiased people readily admit that Eng
land would undoubtedly have acted just
as the United States did In similar cir
cumstances. and very often you hear the
remark that after all 1t would have made
no difference whatever to Germany II
America had declared war.
Germany has no reason to fear
nation which has practically no army.
and the splendid American navy would
be useless, first because the German
fleet has no intention of leaving its
refuge behind the guns of Heligoland,
where the combined navies of the
world cannot get at 1t, and second
because the allied fleets are already
powerful enough to maintain an effec-
tive blockade of Germany. which is
able to get supplies only from the
Scandinavian countries.
The only resentment shown here Is
now found among American residents.
who cannot forget the supreme insult
to America uttered by Germany, when
she asserted that the United States
would be only too glad to accept
cash compensation for American lives
lost" and who consider that Germany
got Off far too lightly after commit
ting an outrage that is without paral-
lei in history. ;
Effect of Tragedy.
The only effect of the Lusitania affair
here. followed as il was almost immedi-
ately by the Zeppelin raid on the seaside
resort of Southend. was Temporary in
crease in the number of men who offered
themselves at the recruiting Offices, prin-
cipally in London and Liverpool. but even
this has now vanished and the daily in
creasing number of posters appealing for
volunteers is a striking proof Of the fact
that the people of England have not been
aroused from their usual lethargy.
London is IL anything even more gay
than usual. theaters and music halls are
and the number Of physically
At Young men who ought to be in the
trenches is as great and as much in evil |
dence as ever in our streets. Officers |
from the front on short leave |
after witnessing scenes of horror such as
have been seen in no other war, are In |
fact equally disguised with the small talk
Of the clubs and the behavior of the peo-
pie in public places, and more than one !
of them has gone aYay declaring that he |
would not put foot In London again until
the war is over. but spend his leaves of
a bsence in Paris. where every one is in |
deadly earnest and realizes what this |
great war means.
DisEustinE Levity.
1t is quite strange to hear these men, |
many of whom were looked upon before |
the war merely as pleasant idiers and |
Jolly good fellows, accuse London of dis |
gushing levity whine praising France and |
Paris.
An anonymous writer in a London
paper tries to explain this strange con-
trast between French and German
and spirit of patriotism and |
evity and lethargy on the other by say
Ing that the people of Germany and !,
France know what they are fighting for,
while the English do not.
The Germans, he says. were fighting
hrst because of the promise Of future |
greatness which the government held out /
TO them for the vision of Germany as
the ruling nation of the world and later
because they realize that their very ma |
tional existence is at stake. while the |
French are fighting to get back their be- |
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