COULD AMERICA HAVE SAVED HER?
THE MAMTRED NURSE. Could America hays saved Nurse uavcll. J.he "New lork Evening Post" recently published the following dis10111 ras J l ' n 6ton corresponThat the United States could have saved the life of Miss Edith Cavell, the English nurse, who was executed iu Brussels by the Germans, had! the British Government asked President Wilson to intercede in her behalf, during the ten weeks she was under arrest, is confidently believed here. . Ik develops that it was the intercession of the United States in behalf of the Countess do Belleville and Mdlle. 'Jhulier, the two Erc-nch women who wero condemned to death for the samo offence lodged against Miss Cavell that gave them a pardon. A. cable message reached the State Department from Ambassador Gerard at Berlin saying that ho had on behalf of tho United States appealed directly to tho Kaiser to spare these two French women. The Ambassador expressed tho view that clemency undoubtedly would bo granted. The cable message was written by the Ambassador three days previously, it seems, and in the meantime (according to Press dispatches) the Kaiser pardoned the two women. So it, would seem evident that it was the influence of the United States exerted on the German Government at tho request of the French Government that saved these two women from execution. If tho United States Government had been asked by the British Government to intercede with Berlin in tho case of Miss Cavell, the step would have been taken as promptly as it was in tlie case of the two French women, it was said. It is truo that the' United States Minister at Brussels, Mr. Whitlock, interceded for Miss Cavell, but he was acting in behalf of. the British Government and not in the name of his own Government. Apparently a good many people in the United States have gained the impression that the American. Minister was speaking for tho United States when he asked that the execution of Miss Cavell be postponed until her friends could be hoard. The United States .is looking after the diplomatic interests of . Great Britain in Belgium, just as it- is looking after tlio interests of the German Empire in numerous countries, including Great Britain, and in no sense whatever did Minister AVhitlock's appeal represent the voico of the United States. Apparently there are a good many people who think tho United States should officially show its resentment of tho execution of Miss Cavell, but since it was according to military warfare, this Government will refrain from making any representation, so it is stated.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 9
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434COULD AMERICA HAVE SAVED HER? Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2666, 11 January 1916, Page 9
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