Our Navy depends upon its merchant marine and this is just simply a plan to use the American merchant marine to augment the British Navy and the British merchant marine. You. are going to have the American flag painted on the sides of these ships. You are going to British harbors because that is where you are going to get your refugees. if you get any. Now. something is liable to happen to one of those ships. The papers today carry the report that one of these child refugee ships was sunk or lost somewhere. Now. you let one of these American ships over there in the war zone get sunk with a lot of children on the ship. and we know at once that there will be a great flareup of denunciation. intense hatred and feeling toward Germany which would inflame the American people and push us closer and closer to this war precipice on which we are standing today. Why should the United States take that chance?
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