The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-28

States were involved upon one side
of the quarrel the nations in
f1uence toward creating stable
world system would be largely at
an end.
President Wilson would now do
what the editors we're shrieking
for; he would send a stiff note to
Berlin and leave the problem of
what might happen in the event
of its rejection to the future. Tt
is in just that way that every war
has been made inevitable"
1t is an element of President
Wilson's greatness that he realized
instinctively the profound futility
and irrelevance of force: it is an
element of his weakness that he
sought to find it's substitute in the
treacherous boys of morality"
rather than in the f1rmer ground
of practical psychology and
craftsmanship.
IN Washington on the following
l. day much the same sort of
thing was happening. At his Cab
met meeting, Mr.. Wilson pre-
sented the draft of second note
strenuous, but not too strenu-
Gus.
The belligerent Garrison was
frank enough to call for fiat yes
or-no demand upon Germany.
Some one said that if there was
to be strong note to Germany
there should be an equally power
full protest against the Britieh
trade restrictions, but several rose
in outrage at this suggestion that
a mere question of commerce
should be considered at the same
moment when we we're discussing
a grave question of human lives"
After the meeting, Mr.. Bryan
told Mr.. Wilson that he could not
sign his second note. Perhaps it
checked the imperious President.
On June 2, Count Bernstorff
gained a personal interview with
him. There was a long conversa-
ton.
The ambassador found the
President animated solely by
desire to preserve peace" and pri-
vately concluded that Mr.. Wilson
would never actually fight of his
own motion, but that the country
might force him into it.
Mr.. Bryan. who had taken an
immense pride and satisfaction in
his great Office, concluded that his
usefulness as Secretary of State
was at an end. He must resign.
TT was a bombshell. The Presi-
Il dent realized at once that it
would tend to undermine the
whole theory that the Administra-
TONS policy was a purely pacific
one.
1t would create a mistaken"
impression that we we're forcing
the issue. What the President did
not see was that Mp. Bryan was
essentially right. A sudden check
had come which might have led
Mr.. Wilson to re-examine more
carefully the precise basis of his
own action. Instead he merely
OVERRIDE it; his advisers told him
that the public would probably
side against Mr.. Bryan, and the
President let him go.
On Monday, June 8, the resigna
ton was announced to the Cas-
met
His resignation was denounced
as a disloyal, traitorous act by
many newspapers and public
speakers. Thanks to the passion
ate newspapers, Mr.. Bryan's heavy
sacrifice for his conscience was to
be of no effect.
WET it did not come to war
i not then. What really saved
Mr. Wilson (and destroyed Mr..
Bryan in the summer of 1915
was neither the strength nor the
astuteness Of our diplomacy. 1t
was the limited capacity Of the
German dockyards "a factor
which our diplomatiSts had scarce
even considered.
When the submarine campaign
was launched in February the
Germans had but Is completed u
boats and only II more under con-
struction.
Monday-Another instaIIment Of
the Road to War"
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