The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 15, 1947, Page 7

MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1947 WHY ODDS ARE AGAINST A NEW WAR By JOHN L.SPRINGER i AP Newstfeatures Writer ! EW YORK.—If anybody is betting on chances of war on a basis of past performances, the odds now are against it. ith tryi There are more examples in American history of serious inter- Wii ey nate, sey somelcentsel national arguments having been settled peacefully than there \ are of those that culminated in war. As against six declared wars in which the United States | has been engaged since the Ri evolution, there have been ten “times of tension" which end-*’——_——_——____—___ ed calmly. ' War talk has been prevalent during much of the country’s existence, ing as a united government when! it looked as though they might! have to bare muscles againsi | France. That was in the 1790's, when the revolutionary | government tried to get Am to take its side in its conflict th! | boundary French | they were backing a_ losing cause. In 1895, when Britain allegedly The colonies had barely got go-| violated the Monroe Doctrine in the Venezuela-British Guiana dispute which had been going on for more than half a century, President Cleveland « villful aggres- ed to any Britis ap. poris to enforce a claims settle- ment. T. R. charged the Germans over the approaches to the Panama Canal .then building, and he ordered Adm. Dewey to be ready for action on an hour's notice. Roosevelt then demanded arbitration at the threat of war. The German emperor backed down hur- riedly. There had been tense moments in 1891, too, when a Chilean mob killed two American sailors in Valp: so and injured several others. This argument was set- tled when the Chilean govern- ment apologized and paid $75, 000. Relations with Mexico were strained during World War I. In half a dozen European powers Propriation of mineral-rich lands' 1914 the U.S. intervened against ang Britain. When the U.S. refused to in- which the U.S. regarded as Vene zuelan. In that case a “get tough”! the new revolutionary, guvern- ment there and the Navy. even tervene the French began to | Policy paid off because the Brit-! held Vera. Cruz. for several hit at American shipping and demanded a loan at's aohoes: | ment. All America took up | the cry of Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, the ambassador to | France: “Millions for defense, | but not one cent for tribute. | Gen. Washington | eg from retirement the hastily forming army, Ameri-| seamen armed their merchant : d there were numerous} skirmishes at sea. War clouds grew blacker and! even his bitieresi politica ene-| mies announced their support of} President John Adams’ foreign policy. Abruptly, in 1799, the! new French dictator Bonaparte offered a peace treaty. | There was another close call | in 1846 after the Democrats | had elected James K. Polk president on a virtual war | platform sloganized as “Fifty- | Four Forty or Fight.” | Under the terms of the Louisi- | ana Purchase, the U. S. claime it had rights to all north ritory right up to the 4 tude at the Alaska bord British had long mai counterclaim, and when < | sions got nowhere war tal a+ | { { | gan to mount. Finally, however, an agreement was reached put- ting the Oregon boundary at the forty-ninth parallel, its pres border. America had three other brushes with the British. In 1863, John Bull grew apoplec- tic over the “wanton insult” | given by U.S. Marines who stopped a British steamer car- rying two Confederate envoys on their way to Europe. Presi- dent Lincoln hastily put an end to the war-like noises by releasing the envoys. Also during the Civil War tt British built and loudiy applau ed the successes of the famed Confederate — cruiser Alabama and other vessels which preyed on Union shipping. Northern hot-heads were all for taking on the British too. And the feeling was -ciprocated. 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