Show THE CR CRISIS SIS WHATEVER happens as the result of Germanys Germany's grim determination to draw a cordon of submarines around her enemies and her blunt warn- warn ng to the neutral nations to keep at a safe distance while she sha proceeds with her lier plan to starve England into subjection it becomes the plain duty of or all Americans to stand firmly behind their government in whatever it thinks best to do If the worst comes they must pr prepare pare to stake their lives fortunes and sacred honor upon the outcome They must stand together together- a nation with but a single purpose purpose and and solemnly resolve to face the issue as becomes a great people in such an awful hour Germany is desperate Her hopes for a consultation over terms of peace blasted her diplomacy thrown into the discard her plea for sympathy Unanswered unanswered unanswered un un- answered she was struck like the lightning and staked her very existence on the he success of the terrible move She is thinking now not of the rights of neutral nations but of her own starving population and the calamity that will come if she fails She can hear nothing but the cries of her people and in inthis inthis inthis this she finds supreme Justification for her unprecedented action Never was wasa a nation more powerful powerful for for the spirit of the superman is now asserting itself itself itself it it- self in the belief of ultimate invincibility invincibility and and never was a nation so dangerous danger danger- ous to deal with as Germany today In this critical hour may our leaders exercise a full measure of patient regard for the rights of other nations but keep ever In mind our own national lonor and dignity And may America make no mistakes Goodwin s. s |