| Show HOW THE WAR CAME TO the fol following lowin g series of articles were received rec elved arom the committee oil public information a recently appointed l by pres wilson Wll soil article no 4 continued from last issue but tile tho Brit isit governments response so while expressing sympathy with tile purpose of out our and declaring their keen desire to consult so fur far as possible tile interests of neutral countries announced their decision to lu adopt generally the rules of tile tho declaration lu ili ques tion subject to cartain and additions which they judge iu in dispensable to tile conduct of their naval operations th tho 0 D do 0 cl clai atlon hall not been endorsed by b any ally power lit in time of peace and there was no legal obligation on great britain to accept it tier her reply how ever was for it did nothing to clarity tile tho situation great britain recognized as binding certain long accepted principles of international law and sought to apply them to tho the peculiar and anfor conditions ot of this war W but these principles were often vague and therefore full of dangerous itice of friction controversies soon arose between great britain and this nation in practice their ruling sometimes seemed to our government inconsistent with tho the spirit of international a I 1 law and esp especially lecia lly with tho the established precedents which they invoked but painful as this divergence of opinion sometimes was it did not licit seriously thi eaten our position of neutrality tor for tile tho issues that arose only involved rights of property and were amply covered by tile tho arbitration treaty signed only a chort unto timo before by great britain and tho the united states to lie e continued |
