Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1917-02-10
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review Vol. XIV, No. 35—15th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, February 10th, 1917 5c a copy $2.00 a year Making His Choice PRESIDENT WILSON has broken off diplomatic relations with Germany, and has given Count Bernstorff and his staff their passports. Ho had to chose between action and humiliation, and decided in favour of the former. However much we may have disapproved of his conduct during the last two years it is impossible to deny that he has exhibited marvellous patience in the endeavour to carry out the policy which he had laid down for himself, the main object of which was to keep his country out of the War. Neither is it possible to deny that in the step he has finally taken he correctly interprets the views and wishes of his countrymen. Nothing could be more gratifying to the President than the uniminaty with his action has been approved and the endorsation which he has received even from the German-American press and from such notorious pro-Germans as Dr. Hexamer of Philadelphia. There can be no drawing back on the part of President Wilson. The issue upon which ho broke off diplomatic relations was clean cut, being nothing more nor less than the denial by Germany of the right of the United States to the freedom of the seas. German statesmen have already said that there will be no drawing back on their part, if not, a casus belli may arise at any moment, and a declaration of War by the United States would inevitably follow. There is some reason to think that plain John Hodge, the Labour member, was not far from tlie mark when lie characterized the Gorman threat as "Bluff and Bounce." German submarines have not yet sunk a vessel flying tho American flag, although they havo had many opportunities, but the most striking evidence of their disposition to "back down" is furnished by the action of the German submarine which could have sunk the Rynclnm with American passengers on board, but instead turned it back from the dang…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0374057
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text