This offer met with prompt rejection, President Wilson standing firm and insisting upon disavowal for the sinking of the Sussex and search of merchantmen before attack.
Any infraction of Germany's latest word would not call for a disavowal or punishment of the commander; the United States would merely act on the presumption that Germany could not or would not control her own naval forces.
The present act makes it necessary for the disavowal to come from the Government; but this section says, "that although the French Government shall not disavow or restrain her depredations, &c.
I repeat it, then, the disavowal of all design to interfere with Texian Independence, or with the existence of slavery in Texas, is enough for me.
Why not retain it in the Department of State until the lapse of these forty days, when the answer from Mexico would have been received, and a fifth disavowal arrived from Great Britain!
McNab: but it is certain he applauded the act when done: and his letter will stand for a condemnation of it, and for the disavowal of authority to do it.
Would to God that our administration could get the same disavowal in all the questions of real difference between the two countries!
I knew that, provided I was strictly honourable, such a disavowal would mean a promotion on the part of the President.
Unless I could get a disavowal of the interview by cable, it would seem that the Department of State was not supporting me.
I have awaited this virile disavowal from the proudest spirits of Germany, a disavowal which would have been ennobling instead of humiliating.
The king, by a second letter to the two Houses, reiterated his disavowal of the whole affair, and assured them that he had ordered the privy council in Dublin to proceed against Glamorgan for his presumption.
The disavowal of Mr. Erskine's treaty by the English government, and the consequent renewal of the non-intercourse act, threw the country into the fiercest agitation.
When news reached Washington which left no doubt that the Sussex had been torpedoed by a German submarine, I immediately cabled to Berlin for instructions in order to be in a position to give an official disavowal of the act.
Will you recall the example of "hiccough," and the absolutely impolite disavowal which I received at the hands of this speaker by my disclosure of the interfering intention.
I was just about myself to publish a formal disavowal of that `Proclamation to the Hungarian Soldiers.
That I shall see, and leave in the meantime my ready disavowalwhere it is.
Without such a disavowal the phrase remained as one of the general bases upon which a just peace should be negotiated.
I have reflected the more I have become convinced that I could not, without manifest impropriety, make the avowal or disavowal which you seem to think necessary.
If by a "definite reply" you mean the direct avowal or disavowal required in your first letter, I have no other answer to give than that which has already been given.
But when there is not this open and shameless disavowal of Religion, few traces of it are to be found.
The promptitude of their disavowal of what their candor had forbidden him to credit, is a new proof of their friendly dispositions, and a fresh incitement to us to cherish corresponding sentiments.
But if so, have we not reason to expect the removal of such an officer from our neighborhood, as an evidence of the disavowal of his proceedings?
The Marine Department, headed by von Tirpitz, creator of the submarine policy, will oppose anydisavowal of the action of German's submarines.
The Kaiser is expected to approve the course suggested by the Imperial Chancellor, despite open opposition to any disavowalof submarine activities which constantly emanates from the German Admiralty.
I trust the disavowal in this letter will prove satisfactory to you.
