Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-09-14
HAVING MADE FOES, WE MUST
PREPARE TO DEFEND
OURSELVES.

to open the eyes Of many American
citizens who have been blinded by
partisanship as bitter as it Is
foolish:
London, Aug. 20. The Sun
day Times, in an editorial head
ed THE Great Neutral" says:
America did not intervene
and did not move a step to as
sert the moral rights she as
sumed by virtue of her insistent
participation in The Hague
Convention, and if by this fail
ure she lost nothing OF material
Importance, she certainly for
feted the post-bellum rights
which would have been hers If
she had taken upon herself the
burdens and responsibilities of
interference.
"This view is fully appreciated
in those quarters where Amer
lean neutrality has been upheld
in the face of all criticism, and
obviously it is the correct view"
The plain truth is that this edi-
torial is characteristic expression
Of British ungraciousness and in
gratitude 1t is obvious to any un-
prejudiced mind, and it is clearly
demonstrable by the facts, that if
England shall be saved from defeat
and destruction it will only be by the
active and aggressive aid of the
United States.
This aid the United States, as a
neutral nation, should not have
given to England or any other of the
belligerent nations. 1t has given
this aid, however, and though Eng
land will never recognize OF remem-
ber that fact, we may be sure that
the Teutonic allies will recognize it
and remember it as long as there is
a man alive in those nations who has
recollection of or has had experience
in this present war.
A short time ago an authoritative
person In England stated that at one
time the English supply OF shells and
ammunition was down to a matter
Of three days consumption. AS the
United States has supplied contln-
uously war materials for many
weeks and months consumption it
is obvious, then, that without the
supply of war materials from the
United States Great Britain would
have been for a long period without
sufficient war material to protect her
lines or even to protect her country
from invasion. France, too, would
have lacked war material except for
the amount supplied by the United
States, so France could have been of
little aid to Britain. SO much for
the war on land
AS to the war on sea, British COM
merce would have been entirely de-
stroyed by German submarines ex-
cept for the action of the United
States Government in preventing the
attack on the merchantmen OF the
Allies, even when those merchant
men were armed with guns for the
destruction Of the submarines.
Finally, as regards the condition
OF the English population at home,
both those in arms and non-combat-
ants:
The people of England would have
been reduced to starvation except for
the food supplies sent by the United
states. and except, further, for the
attitude Of the United States in pro-
fecting the merchantmen which car
ricd these food supplies. Indeed the
armies of Great Britain in the field
for the food supplies from the United
States
The continuance OF an aggressive
warfare, of defensive warfare, even
the very existence OF the British peo-
pie at home have been made possibly
by the supplies Of ammunition and
food and by the active and aggressive
interference by the United States in
behalf of Great Britain and the AL
lies. Even the hospital and Red
Cross relief Of the Allies has been,
for the most part, maintained by inn
mense contributions from the United
States.
Now, what is the complaint which
the English people and their press
have against the United States? It
is simply this: That the British Cow
ernment has been compelled to pay
for the ammunition and for the food
supplies which they have gotten from
the United States.
The charitable and hospital con
tributions have been sent free, of
course. But the bitter British COM
plant is that the business Of supply
ing Great Britain with manufactures
and foodstuff has been conducted on
a business basis.
This Is a wholly ridiculous and an
abominably unreasonable complaint,
but nevertheless it is an actual one.
1t is what you hear on every side
abroad and what you see in nearly
every English newspaper: America
has profited by the war" America
has sent supplies of ammunition and
of food which have saved the British
people, but has had to be paid for
doing So That is the criticism and
complaint
or course, English manufacturers
who supplied arms and ammunition
have been paid, and English farmers
who supplied food have been paid,
and there is no feeling on the part
OF the English people and the Eng
lish press that they should not have
been paid, but that the American
people who supplied ammunition and
who supplied food should have been
paid arouses a deep sense Of wrong
and resentment in the breasts of the
British press men and the British