WILSON DISPLAYS UNEXPECTED COURAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 49, 26 February 1916, Page 5

WILSON DISPLAYS UNEXPECTED COURAGE.

REFUSES TO BE SWAYED WI^^M^WiJMGE^ WH.L, HOT WAEH AMEKICASS AGAIKST VOYAGING ON ■'■■■■ ■'•' >,\' ■ - ' ARMED SHIPS. ..'■.' *' ■■ - ■ ' . ■-■'.■,■■ V DEMOCRATS YIELDING TO THE BEKKSTOBFF CLIQUE. (Sccei'ved-10.15 a:mO - - NEW YORK, February 25. ; A" sensation has been caused by President Wilson's attitude over the piracy policy. As a;result of German pressure Democratic members of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives instructed their chairman, Mr. Flood, to notify President Wilson that they would no longer support him in upholding Americans'* .right to' travel aboard vessels armed contrary to-the-jGcfman"definition. T7v^_( _ • It is believed that the Democrate'-in-the Senate favour President Wilson warning Americans:against taking passages .by such, vessels." ::..U-: Washington is seething with excitement, the.news .showing-that-German-Americaft lobbying has worked up the situation to a climax:, in which President Wilson is threatened with revolt by his own party in' both Houses.' There is Sanger of the Democratic; majorities yielding to Teutonic influences by Count-Bernstorff. - • • ". .--*-." ■ ' ' President Wilson is displaying unexpected courage, and has notified Senator , Stone, chairman of ; .the Senate Committee on Foreign.Relations,.and Mr. Flood, chairman of the similar committee ."in the House of: Representa-tives,-that his patience in. the submarine negotiations with Germany is . exhausted. He will no longer endure'in silence charges of timidity against the Administration. •"'-' . ; Senator Stone.is not anxious to break with President Wilson,.but it is belivcd that German-pressure will force him to lead the Senate; in a fight* to secure; the warning of Americans in order to avoid further complications with Germany. ' * -;'