...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....

...The President's language, however, leaves no room for further quibbling, or petty delays. He has told the German government that unless it "should now immediately...diplomatic relations with the German empire altogether." This is not an "ultimatum," for no time limit is fixed, but the word' "immediately" has much the same...

...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...diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether. This action the Government of the United States contemplates with the greatest reluctance but feels...

...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. Such an attitude was not only justified by every consideration of international law and national duty,...

...July, 1916, pp. 556-560. On April 18th the Secretary of State said: Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment...of its present methods of submarine warfare against passengers and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but...