. The home auxiliary and reference for teachers and students. President promptly accepted resignation and appointed tofill his place Robert E. Lansing, for-mer attorney for the State Department. The reply of the German Govern-ment to this note was as decisive, inaction, as President Wilsons was inwords. About the middle of Augustthe White Star Companys transatlan-tic liner the Arabic, while on herway to New York from England, en-countered the merchant steamer Duns-ley in distress, having been Arabic slowed down and altered hercourse, to ascertain if she could be ofassis
. The home auxiliary and reference for teachers and students. President promptly accepted resignation and appointed tofill his place Robert E. Lansing, for-mer attorney for the State Department. The reply of the German Govern-ment to this note was as decisive, inaction, as President Wilsons was inwords. About the middle of Augustthe White Star Companys transatlan-tic liner the Arabic, while on herway to New York from England, en-countered the merchant steamer Duns-ley in distress, having been Arabic slowed down and altered hercourse, to ascertain if she could be ofassistance, and was herself torpedoedwithout warning by a German submar-ine. The vessel sank in ten minutes,causing the loss of 39 lives, amongwhom were two Americans. The situation for President Wilsonand his Cabinet was trying and critical;relations with Germany strained al-most to the breaking point. Endlesscontroversy with Great Britain overacts caused by the conditions of the war. The eight months of the year 1915of the Wilson administration was BOOK II BIOGRAPHY (SEE ALSO INDEX) GEORGE —1799 Father of His Country. Until the Father of His Country hadfinished Hfe, it was not known thatliuman nature could produce politicalcareers so unselfish. Poets and drama-tists had not even planned them, sotruly is the human imagination har-nessed to the low-rolling car of was thought that sane and powerfulmen, when they could, would grasp andhold power and found Robespierre watered the tree ofliberty with the blood of tyrants; whenDanton threw at the feet of his enemiesthe head of a King—they had but risenfrom learning the lesson taught by theli\ ing Washington. They might haveread hints of that lesson in the booksof Rousseau, but they had seen it infull with their own eyes in the life ofWashington. Why is General Washington greaterthan Samuel Adams and BenjaminFranklin? Because men recognize butone law—force. They all reason,argue,
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