"DIGNITY AND IMPUDENCE," NEW VERSION
President Wilson to the impudent arch-Hun: "Guess I'll soon find a way to get at him!"
Neutrals cannot expect that Germany, forced to fight for her existence, shall, for the sake of neutral interest, restrict the use of an effective weapon if her enemy is permitted to continue to apply at will methods of warfare violating the rules of international law. Such a demand would be incompatible with the character of neutrality, and the German Government is convinced that the Government of the United States does not think of making such a demand, knowing that the Government of the United States has repeatedly declared that it is determined to restore the principle of the freedom of the seas from whatever quarter it has been violated.
German Note to President Wilson,
February 3, 1917.
