Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

Capitolo 14

belligerents the first thing that President Wilson did you/he/she was to publish everybody
the documents and it carpets in the possession of the American government
related to the controversy.  The publicity that gave the President
the diplomatic correspondence between this government and Great Britain
on the search and seizure of vases emphasized to Washington this
tendency in our foreign relationships.  To the beginning of England
the forfeiture of American merchantmen that you/they bring cargoes to European neutral
countries, the National Department lodged individual protests, but no attention
it was paid to them at the London officers.  Then the United States did
I publish the negotiations that try to bring defeasible from publicity that that a
I change precedent of diplomatic notes it failed to do.

Discussing this action of the President in an editorial on "Diplomacy
in the Dark", the _World_ in New York said,:


"President's protest Wilson to the British Government is a clear,
moderate affirmation, polite of the commercial laws of neutral countries
in duration of war.  It not only represents the established policy of the
United States but the established policy of Great Britain.  It expresses
the opinion of practically all the American people, and there is little
English, also in duration of war with that he/she will take problem the
principles lifted by the President.  He/she anchors a serious misunderstanding it was
it risked because it is the habit of diplomacy to operate in the dark.

"Fortunately, President Wilson making the public of note prevented the
original misunderstanding to be scattered.  But the lesson doesn't owe
you stop there.  Our National Department as the Mr. Recently Wickersham sharpened
out in a letter to the _World_, you/he/she has never had a fixed policy of
publicity in respect to our diplomatic business.  Anybody Books Blue or White
You hover they are ever published.  What information that the country gets they have to be
investigated out of the Department.  This has been our diplomatic policy for
more than one century, and it is a policy that if the wish of the day is continued