The fact is decisive that she is for the time being exclusively intended for such unneutral service, whether or no she is at every moment really engaged in rendering such service.
Such vessels run, however, the risk of being punished for rendering unneutral service.
The acts generally regarded as in the category of unneutral service are:-- 1.
Contraband goods of a neutral, vessels attempting to violate blockade, vessels performing unneutral service, or goods or vessels otherwise involved in a way contrary to the laws of war are liable to capture.
A neutral vessel engaged in the laying, cutting, or repair of war telegraph cables is held to be performing unneutral service.
Unneutral Service Unneutral service differs from the carriage of contraband, particularly in being hostile in its nature and involving a participation in the contest.
While the destination is a question of vital importance in the case of contraband, the intent of the act is a matter of highest importance in cases of unneutral service.
The general penalty for the performance ofunneutral service is the forfeiture of the vessel so engaged.
If the carriage of the person or persons is paid by the state, or is done under state contract, it is regarded as sufficient evidence of unneutral service.
It is pertinent, also, to note at this point the interest of neutrals, or of unneutral nonbelligerent Powers, in keeping open the trade routes via the high seas.
The action of the Queen of Holland in receiving the delegation was generally understood as not of an unneutral character but as inspired by sympathy for a kindred people and a willingness to mediate though not to intervene.
The suspicion, however, could not be proved, and the result was that the ships were released without guilt upon the charge of unneutral service or upon that of carrying contraband goods in the usual sense of the term contraband.
In spite of the protests of Great Britain and of Portugal as to his unneutral attitude he had been continued in his position.
In the end nothing came of the alleged unneutral conduct of the United States in the use which had been permitted of the port of New Orleans during the war.
Possibly the alleged unneutral acts in the territorial waters of the United States did not fall within the strict letter of the restrictions contained in these laws.
But such neutralisation could not conceivably reach the Fatherland unless that nation were made over in the image of democracy, since the Imperial State is, by force of the terms, a warlike and unneutral power.
That such a rebellion should be elevated by the unneutral “words” of a foreign Cabinet into respectability which it deserves so little is only another sign we have to watch.
I say nothing of a Parliamentary utterance, that the national cause was “detested by a large majority of the House of Commons”; nor do I speak of other most unneutral speeches.
President Wilson had stated clearly that it would be an unneutral act for loans to be raised in the Union by the combatant States.
Further, they have, until America's entry into the war, honestly striven to win full justice for the American point of view, and to combat the unneutral leanings of the majority of the Americans and the slanderous attacks of our enemies.
In the course of the war he has come to be regarded more and more as unneutral and anti-German, whereas, to the average American public opinion, he appeared in quite a different light.
Evidently Page did not regard his frank descriptions of England under war as expressing unneutral feeling; at any rate, as the war went on, his letters, even those which he wrote to President Wilson, became more and more outspoken.
The President wished me to ask you to please be more careful not to express any unneutral feeling, either by word of mouth, or by letter and not even to the State Department.
The policy of disapproving of war loans affects all Governments alike, so that the disapproval is not an unneutral act.
No such obligation exists; it would be an unneutral act, an act of partiality on the part of this Government to adopt such a policy if the Executive had the power to do so.
To embargo munitions bought by one because the other side does not choose to buy would be the unneutral act.
To permit trade in arms with one belligerent and forbid it with another would be unneutral and illegal.
Archibald, under cover of an American passport and in the pay of the German Government through Ambassador Bernstorff, carried dispatches for Ambassador Dumba and otherwise engaged in unneutral activities.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unneutral" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: biased; colored; interested; involved; partial; partisan; swayed; warped
