The American Governments demarche to London, couched in conciliatory terms, leaves the door open to British suggestions for practical means to save the United States undue ill effects from stringent Allied control of German export trade, American political observers stated today.
The Note was necessary, they add-og, because the Administration must maintain an attitude of technically strict neutrality, such as was proclaimed by President Roosevelt, and also must maintain solidarity with other neutral nations which already have protested to Britain.
The United States' abstention from such action, these observers pointed out, would have left the Government open to severe criticism from iwo isolationist opposition.
All American political quarters emphasized that the Note forwarded to the British Foreign Office today is most conciliatory, especially when compared to the Note of protest lodged in London during the Great War. It was in 1915 that the Amercmn Note was sent to London and it protested against provisions "to detain and take into port ships carrying goods of presumed enemy destination, ownership or origin," as constituting "a practical assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutral commerce within the whole European area."—Havas.
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