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The exchange of notes began in the early days of the war and con- tinued with little cessation during the next two years. On December 26, 1914, Mr. Bryan, as Secretary of State, found it necessary to send a long dispatch to the British Government, couched in a friendly tone but firmly stating the American position; the condi- tion of American foreign trade having become "so serious as to require a candid statement of the views of this Government in order that the British Govern- ment may be ful...ly informed as to the attitude of the United States toward the policy which has been pur- sued by the British authorities during the present war. " The commerce of nonbelligerents, Mr. Bryan asserted, ought not to be interfered with by bellig- erents unless that interference was imperatively necessary for national safety. Disavowing any selfish desire to gain undue commercial advantage, the American Government was reluctantly forced to the conclusion that the British policy toward neutral ships and cargoes "exceeds the manifest necessity of a belligerent and constitutes restrictions upon the rights of American citizens upon the high seas which are not justified by the rules of international law or 164 WOODROW WILSON: AN INTERPRETATION required under the principle of self-preservation.
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