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Show m 00 ' j .THE LAST AMERICAN , W i NOTE. W j : i The American people will support !f , f ' the administration in its reply to the Mi ' Austro-Hungarian note regarding the j 1 1 sale of munitions of war to the en- 1 1 r tente allies. jjl I J M The strongest point made by the B. i ' American government was the state- B ! ;i ment that the German and Austro- ,'! I Hungarian munition factories have been built on the traffic with other nations at war. Their own conduct in the past in supplying warring nations na-tions with guns and explosives dobars the two protesting countries from seriously se-riously insisting that the manufacturers manufactur-ers in the United States Bhall not deal in tho same goods with foreign nations. na-tions. The United States furthermore as a means of self-protection Is justified in allowing the munition factories in this country to expand by accepting foreign orders. Secretary Lansing in his reply closes the controversy as follows: "The government of the United States deems it unnecessary to extend ex-tend further at tho present timo a consideration of the statement of the Austro-Hungarian government. The principles of international law. tho practice of nations, the national safety safe-ty of the United States and other na-'tions na-'tions without groat military and naval establishments, tho prevention of increased in-creased armies and navies, the adoption adop-tion of peaceful methods for tho adjustment ad-justment of international .differences and, finally, neutrality itself, are opposed op-posed to the prohibition by a neutral nation of the exportation of arms, ammunition am-munition or other munitions of war to belligerent powers during the progress prog-ress of the war." To upset all precedents by prohibiting prohibit-ing the sale of munitions to tho allies would have been an unnefitral act on our part |