Abandoning American Neutrality: Woodrow Wilson and the by M. Ryan Floyd (auth.)
By M. Ryan Floyd (auth.)
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Demonstrating their resolve to maintain neutrality, the president and his staff deterred US companies from providing loans to all belligerents and opposed providing insurance for ships that carried contraband to Europe. Remaining isolated from the war, however, would become impossible. The United States relied on European markets and financing to ensure its economic growth, which meant that, unless the US business community was willing to accept a shrinking share of the global market or immediately secure new overseas customers, policies enacted by their most important trading partners would affect the country and make tension unavoidable.
16 Wilson’s comments demonstrate the degree of stress that he felt and illustrate his belief that relations with Britain were in danger. Even though the president personally favored London over Berlin, he placed American interests before all others and knew that public opinion could force his hand against Britain. While Wilson may not have intended his private comments to have an effect on international relations, they did. Once he left Wilson, House told Spring-Rice about his conversation with the president.
46 Lansing reminded the director that Wilson had decided not to “encourage” loans to warring states and that insuring contraband would also threaten American neutrality. ” If the government intended to underwrite American cargoes, it could not accept a list of approved ports. He stated that the restricted destinations included most German harbors. Despite the heightened risk of sailing to these ports, refusing to insure ships headed to such places could appear to be “partiality upon the part of the Government of the United States, and again would imperil the neutrality of this Government .