America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 43, 26 January 1916, Page 8

America.

I PRO-GERMAN PROPAGANBSSTS MAKE PRO OR ESS. ■DEMANDS FOR FULL BLOCKADE United Pkekn Association. London, January 27. The Times' correspondent at Washington says a crisis in Anglo-American relations is approaching, am! pro-Gor-man propagandists hare Lit."l; i, et . n making progress throughout the countr.y. This is partly owing to the indifference of the masses regarding ethies and partly to the admitted illegality of the procedure under the semiblockade. At the same time the leaders of thought are growing dissatisfied with tlie easy official acceptance- of German crime and the legal ineLici; lonsncss is not increasing the dignity of the United States. Britain cannot. he too grateful for the sympathy of .educated circles, but it will be unwise for her to increase her unpopularity of high-handedness at sea. It would be hotter to make the position .strictly legal by declaring a full blockade. In a sensational speech in the Ronfate. Senator Williams, a cotton planter, representative of the most important cotton interests, passionately upheld the cause of the Allies. He urged that a full blockade should be declared. The South had not suffered by making cotton contraband. He pointed out that an Arbitration Treaty existed for Anglo-American disputes.