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The Naval - authorities of neither country, we believe, really want

to abandon the rights of blockade, and it ought to be' quite possible for America and Britain to , agree _to respect each other's 'exercise of sea power in Certain regions and for certain approved purposes. This is only another way of saying that we are all interested, if only on the most material grounds, in the quick ending of any war. Those who supply the wherewithal of war prolong war. To put it in yet another way, in a great war of the future there will scarcely be such a thing as neutrality. The sooner all of us face the simple truth that the full exercise of neutral rights in all circumstances is anti-social the better it will be.

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