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Show LONDON COMMENT Loudon journal st c comment on the note ot our state department affords some ser o s and some amus ng s de 1 ghts At one extreme the London T mes s n ost cone 1 atory and prom lses that exact justice will be done It akes no doubt that some modus end wi 1 be d scovered between two sens ble peoples on the fr endl est terms with each othe At the other extreme the London Chron cle ss es a challenge If Vmer an traders w sh to defy Eng land s regulat ons w th regard to contra band they can do 60 at the r own r sk t sa s Th s journal upholds all Great Br ta n s r les as to contraband n clud ng the r ght to take American sh ps l nto Engl sh harbors for thorough sea ch bo ne of the English papers cannot get a ay from the idea that the Un ted ! btates sho Id support Great Br ta n n I the war Their dea of our neutral ty s that we should let the allies have a free hand to end the war in whatever nay they please no matter how much I it may interfere with o r affa rs I' An er cans the Da ly Ma 1 saj s ' must be aware that the greater the economic pressure the all es are able to brjng to bear upon Germany the sooner will the Tar be over and trade left free I to follow ts normal co rse Th s dea expressed n simple terms s let s wh p Germany w th your ass stance and hiti hrth nf q can emov the bene If ts The ed tor of the Daily Ma 1 probably wo Id be v erj much aston shed if the Cologne Gazette should urge the H Un ted States to he Germany as much as poss ble n the matter of contraband on the theory that the sooner Lngland should bo wh pped the sooner the United States would be able to carry on ts business n a normal way Although the s tuat on created by the K resident s note is somewhat tense it 3 not likely to lead to any se ous conse q ences Undoubtedly the Lngl sh will neet our vifgs at least half way even though ifa hanajrSaps Jhem somewhat n ' the condpftfcfhya? They w 11 not be jsMe ifi oteet the act on of the I Anleriean. eoifgpjss w th reference to Panaina canal tolls It was a close 4 est on n wh ch Amer cans dec ded to ' g ve England the benef t of the doubt ! rather than g ve the world the m : press on that we were disregard ng sac red obi gat ons We 1 new that we should lose by our dec s on Vfe were even far from conv need that we were requ red n honor to make Buch a de c sion and yet we made it in sp te of Kthe ham to ourselves It is not prob able that the English can have forgot I ten how much they owe to our conces sion The boasted Engl sh sp r t of fair, deal ng and g ve and take would be s ngnlarly absent if Great Bnta n j should adhere to the letter of its rul mgs w th regard to contraband and re fuse to make any concess ons wh ch would protect our commerce w th neu tral countries n Europe |