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Show OUR NEUTRALITY Count Ernest von Beveatlow takes a pecul ar view of America s doty with refe ence to neutral ty After statins ra the Tages Ze tung that Amer ca s standpoint s technically co rect he a gi es that shipments from th s coun try benef t only the all es and strengthen the r mil tary power and he makes the suggest on that the Amen can government use the weifaht of its authority m London to insure delivery of strop es to Germany and ts all es Sy this means he says the United States will be able to demonstrate that its neutrality is loval j Tho United States is undet no obh gdtion to grve hostages to Germany that it w 11 observe neut al ty If it remains neutral that is all that can tie requ red or expteted Under s mi Jar circumstances we should not ask Germany to injure its own c t zens by : jv acfortwg an altruistic neutrality not Warranted by international law or by ! jseqedent S -'V-? theie is anv nossibility of secur Igljting an arrangement whereby our sup Kg h'kes can bo landed in Germany or PEusfcpa. the "overnment at WaBhine onehouH do everyth nu poss ble to about such an arrangement On ySnAher hand we are not called upon tohreaten England. FranceTor Eusla ft-sCW. the p vrpose Of obtaining favors t Tih ch are always dnied to neutral Sountir es by belligerents In the mat fc of contraband we should not perm t aay oi the belligerents to deny us our !jr exaet rights and where international n law is not clear we should resolve the doubts m our own, favor and exert the full powe of government to obta n the most favorable treatment Of a piece with Count von Bevent lowJg' suggest on is the protest of Em bassador Jusserand who has lodged an informal protest with the treasury de partment m Washington acarnst the new regulations as to invoices and dee larat ons for exporters shipping goods to the United States The regulations to which he ob ccts are des "ed to p e vent customs ndervaluat on and re rjuife gi eater regular ty in the spec fi cat ons of good1) to be exported The TYench envov compla ns that the war has taken nto the f eld most of the men famil a w th th s sort of work and that the r dut es now are being performed largely by won en and boyB without experience In the last analy s s th s is a demand on the part of the Trench government that we change our laws so that the French government Juliet onaries and clerks can go to the f r ng line The European nat ons engaged in the var should have understood the conse quences of entering upon hostilities and it is playing the baby act when they asl the United States to relieve them from some of the consequences v.h ch thev have brought upon them selves |