A DECLARATION OF WAR
UNITED STATES URGED TO
ACT AT ONCfi.
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE
ANSWER.
I .. NEW YORK, Ist February. } Newspaper^ opinion throughout the country, excepting in thb pro-German _ organs, is almost unanimous in favour of an immediate and vigorous reply to the German Note Many of the newspapers advocate the breaking off of relations. Some declare that.it is a. direct challenge, which should be accepted within twenty-four hours. | One papet says: "The Arkansas i troop? arc lit President Wilson's disi posal." • • . I Tile New York World says; "The I Note is in effect ti declaration of war | against the United States. There can i only be one answer, and that answer i should bg made to-day. .Count Bern-
storff must receive his passports-forth-with, and diplomatic relations must cease immediately. If this means actual, war with Germany, so be it."
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 29, 2 February 1917, Page 7
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142A DECLARATION OF WAR Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 29, 2 February 1917, Page 7
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