America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 59, 15 February 1916, Page 5

America

PRUSSIAN CAT LET LOOSE. [Umthd Pr>" Amooiation "> London, February 13. The Times correspondent at Washington says that the cat is out of the Prussian diplomatic bag. Count Bernstorff, with rare cynicism, made the delivery of his famous Lusitania memorandum the occasion of an announcement of war on merchantmen. This explains the lack of jubilation m American official circles over the apparent settlement of the Lusitania, and it is feared that America has been manoeuvred into a most difficult position. It is assumed that Mr Lansing will point out in his memorandum to the Allies that America believed they were accepting the proposals, presumably yielding to the insistent nagging oi r the Central Powers, in the hope.; thereby to facilitate a settlement regarding the Lusitania. Berlin's record seems ominously strategical, for Germany has not only found a convenient way of nullifying thd practical results of President Wilson's Lusitania victory, but has stirred up a controversy fraught with unpleasantness to Anglo-American relations and with considerable danger to American prestige.

The German press unanimously applaud the memorandum, describing it as an extremely important step which mav nrove the turning point of the

| THE BLOCKADE. ANCLOPHOBISTS IN CONGRESS. London, February 13. The Times' correspondent at Washington states that the Hearst press is discussing an immense and drastic policv towards the blockade. Th? Anglophobe leaders are marshalling t]ieil . foiTe s in Congress. President Wilson's recent sensational ppeeches ha,-d startled the public, who were 'seeing the German difficulty easily settled. They imgaine that President Wilson's talk of external dangers refers to Britain, but nevertheless the little popular dissatisfaction at the blockade is insufficient to ovorwe g.i the general desire for no war.