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Show What Price Neutrality? IT ANY nation can claim that It Is a neutral in the present war, as far as Germany Is concerned. It certainly ought to be Sweden. In tha World war the Swedes scrupulously avoided entanglement and in fact supplied Germany Ger-many with much-needed iron and other raw materials. In tha current conflict tha same situation sit-uation Is true. Yet despite Sweden's careful neutrality and friendly trade relations with Germany, a German Ger-man submarine Friday sank a Swedish freighter freight-er which was bound for Belgium with a cargo of iron intended exclusively for tha use of neutral Belgium. Think of it! Tha ship of a neutral and very friendly nation, carrying iron, not arms, and headed for a neutral nation, not a belligerent la torpedoed and sunk. What chance will American ships have in their commerce with warring or nearby neutral neu-tral nations? That Incident is certainly warning to America that neutrality these days is not a matter of international law or embargoes. The only possible protection for a neutral is to stay way from trouble and that's exactly what our "cash and carry" plan, plus the ban on American commerce in the war zones, is intended in-tended to accomplish. |