ABSTRACT
During the first year of the World War the United States addressed numerous and sharp protests to Great Britain against interference with American trade and mails. On May 8, 1916, United States acknowledged the receipt of Germany's answer, with the pledge given, and pointed out that the United States was unable to discuss the suggestion that the safety of American citizens should be made dependent on the conduct of other governments. The United States had been an indispensable provider of food-stuffs and chemicals, and had helped in furnishing manufactured products and raw materials for armament and transportation. The World War made the United States a great creditor nation, interested in the fiscal policies of European nations. The Americans participation led many of the Latin-American republics and China and Siam to enter the coalition against the central powers, and the United States assumed a moral responsibility to pursue to attainment after the war the objects for which they had entered it.
