ABSTRACT
All along the Germans have seen two great truths: first, that British command of the sea has become absolute, and has abolished the neutral rights which interfere with it; second, that America's policy has been to protest feebly and without effect against Britain while Germany has been held by threat of war from using the submarine fully to relieve the pressure. No one can say that this statement of the case does not give Germany her due. It errs if anything in giving her the extreme benefit of every doubt. But when her case has been made with all allowances we are more than ever sure that this nation does right in accepting the blockade and defying the submarine. It does right because the war against Britain, France, and Belgium is a war against the civilization of which people are a part.
