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break relations Commenting this Dispatch the indianapolis
News the day said
this country people patience has been
shown by their Government We believe that history will sustain
that view Almost ten months than hundred Amer
can citizens deliberately done death by the German Govern
men for is understood that the submarine commander acted
under instructions Germany the
ground the Govern
ment Yet after all this me the Lusiana still unsettled
Administration recognized that
public opinion normal and that for that
it has done everything in its to smooth the to
settlement by making as easy as possible the Imperial
just Indeed President has
far himself criticism home We believe
that he would have been sustained he had Immediately
sinking of the Lustania broken off diplomatic relations
But he has stood out against public opinion in his country
could honor do the feeling here Yet just the
of settlement that would have been unsatisfactory toany
of people Germany announced the policy that had
demned illegal and that plainly is illegal The trouble in
Berlin is utter inability anything in the attack
the Lusania appreciate the of horror that
stirred this country it, The idea be that the policy
of fghfuness could be extended to the high without in
shocking the American people Nothing has from
Berlin that indicates feeling of guilt the part of the
German people their Government
"n the United States the contrary the act regarded
of the blacklist crimes of history And in spite Of
that feeling have waited patiently for months in the hope
that the German Government would do justice and clear its
of reproach Yet told that is Germany that has
shown patient attitude the implication nsnuaon being
that Administration has unreasonable and
impatient That will not be the verdict of history it is not
the verdict of people We made allowance for
the conditions existing in Germany and have absolutely refused
to take advantage of her distress We doubt whether there
other Government the world that would have shown the
patience moderation like
the American these
I sent the editorial to Won Jagow who returned it the
day with the brief comment of his calling cards. Wth
many thanks"
Colonel House at Work in Berlin
About this time Count Reventow other
began to refer to everything President Wilson did bluff"
When Colonel f. NJ House Berlin early
impress the officials with the fact that Mr. Wilson
only bung but that the people support
whatever he did in dealing with tho German
Gerard tried too to impress the Foreign Office but because
could only deal with that branch of the Government
not change the navys impression which that
take definite stand against Germany. eighth of
February the London Times printed the following dispatch which
I had sent to tho United States:
in dealing with the Berlin Foreign Office has
been criticized for just the opposite 1t has been
quenty that he too aggressive The Ambassadors
ton was that he must Mr. Wilson's ideas.
tried for days and weeks to impress officials with
of the situation At the critical negotiations
various unofficial diplomats began seriously
interfeed with negotiations. politician who
through his credentials from Mr.. Bryan many high
and Informed them that President Wilson writing notes
for home consumption" Mr.. Gerard however, appealed
Washington to know what by of this
American with authority from Mr. Bryan This BEGIN
ming of the reason for Secretary Bryan's resgning
Secretary Bryan had informed Ambassador
Dumba that the United States would position
against Germany though was limited so in the Lus