...Government would have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with her unless the German Government •' should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight carrying vessels." These two grounds for breaking off relations with Germany are distinct....

...by tangible proofs, and on April 19 came the message to Berlin that "unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have (Continued on page 56,/o&rwtfl;)...

...April, that unless the German Government should "abandon its present methods of submarine warfare," the United States "can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Government altogether" had been unmistakable. But even with diplomatic rupture recognized as inevitable,...

...note, delivered some three weeks later, was in effect an ultimatum. "Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether." 22 The German reply was so couched that the United States was able to accept it, and war was again...

...forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. "Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic...

...forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...relations with the German Empire altogether. This action the Government of the United States contemplates with the greatest reluctance but feels constrained...

...forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether." In reply to this declaration the Imperial German Government gave this Government the following assurance:...

...forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether. In reply to the note from which the above declaration is quoted Your Excellency 's Government stated...

...forced to the conclusion that there is but one course it can pursue. Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether." In reply to this declaration the Imperial German Government gave this Government the following assurance:...

...humanity and the rights of neutral nations," the note declared that: "Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether." Germany's second Sussex note, dated May 4, 1916, "emphatically repudiated" the assertion of indiscriminate...