Show TIME FOR DEEDS HAS HAS' COME SAYS ROOSEVELT Former President Says Situation Calls for More Than Severance of Diplomatic Diplomatic Diplomatic Diplo Diplo- matic Relations With Germany BAY BAT N. N Y Aug 21 Former President The Theodore Theodoro ore Ro Roosevelt c O OYSTER i sued issued the following statement hero tonight V I see this suggested in in the papers that the time German answer t to our last note that is the sinking of the Arabic by a l German submarine and the consequent murder of certain American citizens will wm be adequately met tact by the administration dismissing Bernstorff and severing sc diplomatic re relations relations relations re- re lations with Germany I earnestly hope the tile administration will not take this view for to do so would be bc a fresh sacrifice o or of American honor and in in- in terest Time The Presidents President's 5 note to Germany in February last was an excellent note if on only it had been lived Jived up UJ to But every subsequent note has represented nothing but hut weakness and nd timidity on our side an and the sinking sinking sinking sink sink- ing of the Luisitania a and of the Arabic J the attacks on the ht and and all aU the thc similar incidents that have hayo occurred rep represent the arrogant arro arro- gnat gant answers which this weakness has inspired Germany will Ct care nothing nothing noth noth- ing ng for fur the mere severance of diplomatic relations The Thc time tim for fOI words on the part of this nation has long longo pa passed and it is inconceivable to fo American n citizens who claim to h bb bo inheritors inheritor of the traditions of Washington and Lincoln that our governmental go representatives lives tives shall not see eo that the time for deeds has come What has just occurred is a fresh and md lamentable proof of the of our people in not having n insisted upon the tho beginning of active military preparedness thirteen months ago |