10 FEBRUARY 1917, page 1

As We Go To Press Comes A Report That Such

an " overt act " has occurred in the detention of the American Ambassador in Berlin by order of the German Government. Ho is to be held as a hostage till " guarantees have been......

Mr. Wilson Announced His Policy To A Joint Session Of

Congress last Saturday afternoon. He declared that a complete rupture with Germany had become inevitable, and stated that the German Ambassador had been given his passports that......

T He Decision Of The United States To Break Off All

relations with Germany, and thus to support morally—and later perhaps by force of arms—the cause of the Allies, is one of the most memorable events we have had to record since......

Mr. Wilson Was Mistaken In Assuming That Other Neutrals...

follow his lead, even as we are sure he will prove mistaken about Germany displaying an eleventh-hour moderation. Herr Zimmer- mann, indeed, has already said that there can bo "......

News Of The Week.

The supreme duty of the contia3 week is to make the War Loan a success The good citizen must put that before every other consideration. He must not only invest every shilling at......

The Note Does Not End Without A Few Touches Of

insolence to the United States, to which we can recall no parallel. Napoleon's Decrees were an instrument of fastidious delicacy and consideration by comparison. The American......

We Must Now Summarize The Events Leading Up To Mr.

Wilson's decision to take the step that has brought together—after a period of very dangerous soreness, as we have pointed out elsewhere— the two great branches of the......

Britain (so Runs The Argument) Has Compelled Germany To This

course by using her naval power to starve Germany. " The British lust of power has increased the sufferings of the world without regard to any law of humanity." Therefore the......

This Declaration, Epoch-making In The Legitimate Sense Of...

phrase, was followed by a demonstration which proved that Mr. Wilson had brought into complete harmony all the various degrees of opinion about the relations of America and......