LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
AMERICA AND THE WAR.
N.. Tel EDITOIS or TEM usrsorrros."1 SIR,—As an American citizen, though residing in England. heartily agree with the excellent letter by Dr. J. William White published in your issue of the 14th inst. It le high time that the United States should take action in accordance with her declaration as to " strict accountability." Enough has been said. Germany's evasive and insolent replies to repeated demands leave no ground for hope that she will renounce her outrages. Under these conditions it is hard to see how the United States can with honour any longer delay diplomatic rupture. Certainly she cannot be accused of pre- cipitancy in now handing his passports to the German Ambassador.
To those who feel keenly the iniquity and the far- reaching menace of the German aggression, it is dishearten. ing to read in American newspapers that, while the people execrate these things, they do not want war. It ought to be seen that America's plain duty is to make common cause with England and her allies. If she continues to stand aloof, other neutral States will be more likely to do so, and the struggle may conceivably go on until the whole of Europe is devastated and every precious heritage of art and literature is destroyed. Such a consummation would be neither profitable nor creditable to America. I may add that the insistence of the United States on paltry rights of neutral commerce while England is at death-grips with the common enemy is a disgrace to the country.—I am, Sir, &a,
CHARLES H. Moony.
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