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Show I CLAIMS UNITED STATES IS AIDING GREAT BRITAIN. The following letter dated Trafalgar Buildings. Trafalgar Square. London, addressed to The Standard, Is signed Lillian Scott Troy, and is the second communication of the kind sent us: "Editor Standard: Now that the Carnegie project for the celebration of one hundred years of peace between be-tween the United States and Great Britain Is assuming such dangerous proportions, it behooves the press of the United States to sound the alarm against the giving of subscriptions b the public to this fund "The whole project Is nothing more or less than a diplomatic move on the part of the British Government to ward off the wrath of Germany, who .is only staying her hand for reason Oi the implied threat that the United States will come to the rescue of Great Britain In the event of war b? 'tween the latter nation and Germain I Andrew Carnegie, with the able assistance of Ellhu Root and Jopeph H. Choate. Is the apostle who la spending millions to promulgate thlB doctrine, and It Is high time that the j United States ambassadors abroad, jwho are his tools In thi6 mlsrepresen-I mlsrepresen-I tat Ion. were recalled "The Interference of the United States government In the Moroccan dispute between (Jermany and Great Britain was a disgraceful act of tre.v eon on the part of the handful of American officials who, without the knowledge or sanction of the. American Ameri-can people, definitely Informed Germany Ger-many that any further Insistence on her part of conditions which were not acceptable to Great Britain, would mean that the United States would back Great Britain up with men and arm Later, when William Howard Taft was elected president of the United Statee flermanv who had not alto gether lost faith in American neutrality, neutrali-ty, again approached Great Britain with a view to the settlement of the dispute. Immediately the United Stales Atlantic fleet was dispatched to English waters and Commander Sims of Admiral Murdock's flagship the Minnesota delivered an official speech in London in which he said that if England were threatened with an external foe she could count upon every man. every dollar a-nd eer drop of blood in the United States." "To the American public the despatch de-spatch of the Atlantic fleet to British waters In mid winter was regarded as a very pleasant and enjoable cruise for the officers and men of the fleet The truth of the move was known io the British and German governments gov-ernments and the Carnegie pro British annexationists in the United States government "Germany was again obliged to stay her hand; but immediately increased her naval program. "Having been subjected to Amen can diplomatic Intervention on two rrltiral occasions, when pressing for a settlement of demands with Great Britain. German1, had every reason to believe that the United States government gov-ernment was representing public opinion in America, by the pro-British sympathies manifested by two successive suc-cessive adminlBtratlonsi "in consequence of this ant I German attitude In American diplomatic circles cir-cles the German government decided to manifest its resentment of American Ameri-can public professions of friendship for (jermany, and diplomatic private threats, by refusing to take any part In the Panama Canal exposition at San Francisco in 1915. ' When the Wilson administration came into office the German govern ment was keenly alive to note anv change in the diplomatic antagonism of the United State? There appeared to be a strengthening of the Anglo American bond by means of the Carnegie Car-negie "Peace' activities, and Germany was therefore only moved to a greater resentment when she learned that In January, 1914, the Atlantic fleet was to be again despatched to European waters January, 1914. synchronizes with the date of settlement for German claims agnlnet Great Britain, and once again we shall find trie power of the United States nay booking up Great Britain in European waters. "This contemplated 'jaunt' of tho Atlantic fleet to the Mediterranean in January next. Is another Instance of Great Britain holding our American l fleet over the head of Germany as n big 6tick." Lillian Scott Troy is "seeing things." The Carnegie project Is for the purpose of further cementing the friendship of the English-speaking people and should be encouraged There Is no evidence that any one in position to speak for the L'nited States has ever offended Germany by any declaration of antagonism The islt of the American fleet to European waters could be as readily accepted ae an act hostile to Great Britain as one unfriendly to Germany. oo |
