America.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 69, 26 February 1916, Page 5

America.

WILSON’S BACK TO THE WALL. Ll*. . SENSATIONAL DEVELOPMENT. TEUTONIC INFLUENCE AT WORK EXCITEMENT IN WASHINGTON. :>! PRESIDENT'S PATIENCE EXrt HAUSTED. *OO a iOO'-t =■ WARNING OR NO WARNING. United Press Association. (Received 9.5 a.m.) New York, February 25. A sensation has been caused by President Wilson’s attitude a s the result of German pressure on the democratic members of the Foreign Af fairs Committee, the representatives of whfi h have instructed their chairman (Mr Flood) to notify President Wilson that they will no longer support him in holding to the Americans’ right to travel on board vessels armed contrary to the German definition. It' is believed that the Democrats in the Senate favour President Wilson warning Americans when taking passages on such vessels. Washington is seething with ex citenient at the news shewing that German-American lobbying has worked up the situation to a climax, in which President Wilson is threatened with revolt among his own party. Both Houses are in danger ot the Democratic majorities yielding to Teutonic influences, which are being directed by Count Bernstorff. President Wilson is. displaying unexpected courage, and lias notified Mr Stone (chairman of the Senate Committee of Foreign Relations) and Mr Flood (chairman of the similar Committee in th e House of Representatives) that his patience in the submarine negotiations with Germany is exhausted, and that he will no longer endure silence under the charges of timidity against the Administration. Mr Stone is not anxious to break with President Wilson, but he believes Ihe Gorman pressure will force him to lead the Senate in a fight to secure a warning of the torpedoing for Americans in order to avoid further complications with Germany