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Show AMERICANS UPHOLD RIGHT TOTHE SEAS; CANNOT SUFFER FURTHER SUBORDINATION SUB-ORDINATION OF ITS RIGHTS AND INTERESTS AS NEUTRAL. Great Britain Advised That the United Unit-ed States Unhesitatingly Assumes ' Task of Championing Rights of Neutrals. Washington. The United States in' 4ts latest note to Great Britain, made public here Sunday, covering exhaustively exhaus-tively British interference with American trade since the beginning of the European war, declares that the so-called blockade instituted by the allies against enemy countries on March 11 is "ineffective, illegal and indefensible." in-defensible." Notice is served that thej American government "cannot submit to the curtailment of its neutral rights," and it cannot "with complac-i ence suffer further subordination of its rights and interests." Ambassador Page, to whom the, note was sent by special messenger for delivery to the London foreign office, of-fice, was instructed by Secretary Lan-. sing to "impress most earnestly" upon the British government that the; United States "must insist that the relation re-lation 'between it and his majesty's government he governed not by a policy pol-icy of expediency, hut by those established estab-lished rules of international conduct to which Great Britain in the past has: held the United States, to account when the latter nation was a belliger- ent engaged in a struggle for national; existence." Declaring the United States "unhesitatingly "unhes-itatingly assumes" the task of cham- pioning the integrity of neutral rights,, the note proclaims that the American' government will devote its energies to the task, exercising always an impar-' tial attitude. |