When a war comes a government must go in it or stay out of it.

It must make a declaration to the world of its attitude.

That's all that neutrality is.

A government can be neutral, but no _man_ can be." "The President and the Government," Page afterward wrote, "in their insistence upon the moral quality of neutrality, missed the larger meaning of the war.

It is at bottom nothing but the effort of the Berlin absolute monarch and his group to impose their will on as large a part of the world as they can overrun.