64TH CONGRESS zd Session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { DOCUMENT THE PROBLEMS OF NEUTRALITY WHEN THE WORLD IS AT WAR A HISTORY OF OUR RELATIONS WITH GERMANY AND GREAT BELLIGERENT POWERS BY S. D. FESS (IN TWO PARTS) PART 2 RESTRAINTS OF TRADE CONTROVERSY 毖 PRESENTED BY MR. FOSTER WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE PROCLAMATION OF PRESIDENT WILSON FOR DAY OF PRAYER. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. A PROCLAMATION. Whereas great nations of the world have taken up arms against one another and war now draws millions of men into battle whom the counsel of statesmen have not been able to save from the terrible sacrifice; And whereas in this as in all things it is our privilege and duty to seek counsel and succor of Almighty God, humbling ourselves before Him, confessing our weakness and our lack of any wisdom equal to these things; And whereas it is the especial wish and longing of the people of the United States, in prayer and counsel and all friendliness, to serve the cause of peace: Therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do designate Sunday, the 4th day of October next, a day of prayer and supplication and do request all God-fearing persons to repair on that day to their places of worship there to unite their petitions to Almighty God that, overruling the counsel of men, setting straight the things they can not govern or alter, taking pity on the nations now in the throes of conflict, in His mercy and goodness, showing a way where men can see none, He vouchsafe His children healing peace again and restore once more that concord among men and nations without which there can be neither happiness nor true frendship nor any wholesome fruit of toil or thought in the world; praying also to this end that He forgive us our sins, our ignorance of His holy will, our willfulness and many errors, and lead us in the paths of obedience to places of vision and to thoughts and counsels that purge and make wise. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this eighth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and thirty-ninth. [SEAL.] By the President: WILLIAM JENNINGS BRyan, WOODROW WILSON. II Secretary of State. Abolition of distinction between absolute and conditional.. 215-228, 229 Cushing 38 Our note to England. Wilhelmina.. Declaration of London. Our note to Germany. British answer.. Germany's answer.. British orders in council: August 20, 1914.. October 29, 1914. March 30, 1916. July 7, 1916. Contraband Foodstuffs, importation of, into Germany. Germany's "without warning" note. Frye, William P., sinking of the. Germany, decree on foodstuffs ordinance on declaration of London war zone decree February 4, 1915...... 95, 157 32 8 III 203, 205-209 203 203 204 (footnote) 204 204 209-211, 211-214 340 372 372 205-211 89, 90 181 164 65 166 37 280-282 280 281 11 274-280 Page. Germany-Great Britain, modus vivendi between, proposed by United States. 18, 22, 27 Declaration of London.. Flag, neutral... Frye. William P., steamship.. Severance of diplomatic relations.. War zone... Great Britain: Blockade of Germany, March 1, 1915.. Declaration of London, orders in council- August 20, 1914. October 29, 1914. 203 32 169 164 37, 38-39, 52, 55, 65, 114, 155, 157, 169 8, 10, 13, 38-52, 114-132, 155–157 287 319 204 209-214 340-343 372 372 30, 293, 342 October 20, 1915. Requisition of ships.. Trading with the enemy act. Great Britain-United States correspondence. Armed merchant vessels. Blacklist. Blockade. Ineffectual, illegal, and indefensible Censorship of cables.. Contraband of war.. Classes absolute Conditional. Declaration of London.. Detention of American cargoes. 340-343, 345-372 75-88 327-339 327-338 401 182, 205, 229-234 Flag, neutral. Foodstuffs into Germany. Gulflight, steamship, attack on.. Importations in the United States. Interference with mails.... Neches, steamship, detention of. Submarines and armed neutral vessels. Hague Conference, its findings.. First reply from Germany. Second reply. Third note. Mails, interference with. Maritime rights, order in council. Matamoras cases, cited.. Mediterranean Sea, submarine activity in.. Merchant vessels: See Armed merchant vessels. Detention in British ports. Mines, submarine.... Modus vivendi proposed by the United States. 203 346-350 95, 157, 274-280 37 182-183, 385-401 314, 319 274-280 55, 60 377 38 38 39 38-52 40 43 45 48 52 182-183, 385-401 372 318 61-73 346-350 7, 8, 10 18, 282 |