A resolution introduced in the American Senate by : Mr. Borah
asked the Secretary of State what he was doing in regard to the " claims of' American citizens against Great Britain and France arising out of violation of the rights of neutrals " between the beginning of the War and the date at which America entered the War. The resolution was referred to the Foreign Relations Committee. This may turn out to be an unpleasant business, though we hope. not. .The Times correspondent says that there are supposed to be between two and three thousand claims. If the American Government decided to press them it would be demanding corn-1 pensation for actions which, as the Times correspondent says, shortened the War and reduced the cost of victory, in which the United States participated. Claims, in. fine, would be made on Great Britain just as though' they were comparable with claims made against Mexico
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