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CABINET CRISIS IN UNITED STATES

MR. BRYAN RESIGNS DIFFERENCES OVER EUROPEAN WAR POLICY Wiiahlnßlon, .limo 8. Mr. W. J. Bryan, United States Secretary of Stalo, liiiii resinned. Mr. Bryan lias allowed it to bo known that lio in wholly opposed to President Wilson's policy. Ho favours poace, and d<<|>i<v t <t<-,i any action likely to lead to complications. . The Press generally approves of Mr. Bryan n mnirtmlMi, I mping Hull. tho result will be a stronger and moro vigoious policy imvurd.i (iorimin infractions of international law. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED; MR. LANSING TO SIKJCEUO. : (Roc. Juno 9, 8.30 p.m.) , Washington, Juno 8. President Wilson lias accepted Mr. Bryan's resignation. r Mr. Bryan's resignation was based on tlio ground that anything in the nature or an ultimatum would bo a violation of tint peace principles for i which the Government lias stood. > Mr. Robert Lansing, Counsellor for t-lio State Department, will succeed Mr. Bryan. Mr. Robert Lansing is a son-in-law of the Hon. .Inlin W. Koster, one of (lie most eminent diplomats in the United Stales and Secreiary of State, under President Harrison. 1802-3. Mr. Lansing's first appointment was that, of asso--1 ciat'e counsel for the Government in the Bering Sea lfur Arbitration. Four i years lator lio become counsel for the United States in the Bering Sea Claims 5 Commission, and sis years later was solicitor for ilie United States in 111© Alaskan Boundary Tribunal. Between the times when Mr. Lansing was ems ployed by the Government in international arhii rations be practised law at his ij home ill Watertown, New York. but. sinee 1909 lie has been almost constantly in the employ of the Government. In 1009 and 1 PIO lie was counsel for the ; Kor't-b At-lHitiif Cvifißl riflWiw Arhitrstioii #1 The Bairn* It) inil no •»»* * 4 flohnical'delecate at a confcrenca held m Washington with, Cmdiau dele«

uates for tho practical application of tho fisheries award, and later was technical delegate at tho Fur Seal Conference held in the same city by the United States, Great Britain, Russia, and Japan. In 1912 Secretary Knox named him as counsel before the American and British Claims Arbitration; and in 1913 President Taft commissioned him us agent, for the Government. Mr. Lansing was one of the organisers of the American Society of International Law in 1000, and continues an associate editor of the "American Journal of International Law." ITo has published articles on international subjects, and also, in collaboration with Mr. Gary Jones, a book on "Government: Its Origin, Growth, and Form in tho United States." UNITED STATES NOTE TO GERMANY i SAFETY OF AMERICANS AT SEA INSISTED' ON. London, June 6. . Tho Exchange Agency ot Washington states that a United States Nolo j has been dispatched to Germany. , (Rec. June 9, 9 p.m.) Washington, June 6. President Wilson has authorised tho statement that ho deprecates scn6a- , tional statements in newspapers. "The German Note regarding attacks on tho American vossels Gull' Light and Gushing, is not unsatisfactory, but it docs not affect tho main principle for winch tho United States is contending—that Americans on unarmed merchant ships, of every nationality, must bo transferred to a place of safety before a prize is destroyed." CABINET CHANGED THE NOTE SLIGHTLY, London, June 9. Reuter's correspondent states that Cabinet changed tho Note only slightly after Mr. Bryan had revised President Wilson's draft. The latter "had undergone no material change. EX-SECRETARY DESIRED PEACE BY ARBITRATION. (Rec. June 9, 10.45 p.m.) Washington, June 9. Mr. Bryan's resignation had been under consideration for several days. He is leaving because he did not wish to embarrass the President by opposing the latter's policy. Mr. Bryan favoured a Note which would in no oircumstances involve the United States in grave complications, and wished that the plan outlined in his arbitration treaties should be followed in dealing with Germany, but as he had signed the first Note it was not expected that he would urge his views to the point of a rupture with the Government. Mr. Bryan's resignation in nowise affects the Note, which Mr. Lansing will sign, with, the approval of the Cabinet. It contains the usual expressions of friendly sentiment, but there is reason to believe that if the United States and Germany are unabla to agree on the fundamental principles involved in tho sinking of the Falaba and tho Lusitania, further cordial relations are likely to be postponed indefinitely.

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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 5

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CABINET CRISIS IN UNITED STATES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 5

CABINET CRISIS IN UNITED STATES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2484, 10 June 1915, Page 5

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