 | Hilton Proctor Goss - 1955 - 334 sayfa
...Russell's order, protested to Russell. MINISTER ADAMS' NOTE TO EARL RUSSELL, LONDON, SEPTEMBER 5, 1863: ... It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war. No matter what may be the theory adopted of neutrality in a struggle, when this process is carried... | |
 | William Barnes, John Heath Morgan - 1961 - 452 sayfa
...a climax with his famous warning of September 5, 1863, that, should the rams be allowed to depart, "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war." 89 While Russell had actually ordered the rams detained before receiving Adams' note, the unremitting... | |
 | 1898 - 586 sayfa
...they cannot interfere in any way with these vessels," that Mr. Adams used the memorable expression : "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." Returning to America in May, 1868, Mr. Adams at once addressed himself to the task of preparing for... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 1988 - 952 sayfa
...Foreign Secretary Russell increasingly acerbic protests culminating in a declaration on September 5: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war." Unknown to Adams, the Palmerston ministry had decided to detain the ships even before receiving this... | |
 | James M. McPherson - 2003 - 947 sayfa
...Foreign Secretary Russell increasingly acerbic protests culminating in a declaration on September 5: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war." Unknown to Adams, the Palmerston ministry had decided to detain the ships even before receiving this... | |
 | Bradford Perkins, Walter LaFeber, Akira Iriye, Warren I. Cohen - 1995 - 276 sayfa
...already in Liverpool. Adams bombarded the Foreign Office with protests, finally writing Russell, "It is superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. " It was indeed superfluous, for Russell had already decided to prevent the rams' departure. Still... | |
 | Eugene V. Rostow - 1995 - 420 sayfa
...States from British soil, by attacking all the seaboard cities of the North, and raising the blockade. "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war."28 At about the same time, the news of Gettysburg and Vicksburg reached England, changing the... | |
 | Jay Monaghan - 1997 - 538 sayfa
...this correspondence. Two days later he wrote a famous dispatch insisting that the rams be stopped : "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war !" A' reply34 to the ultimatum came from Earl Russell on September 8 : "Instructions have been issued... | |
 | John Malloy Owen - 1997 - 268 sayfa
...destruction of Boston alone would be worth a hundred victories in the field." Adams warned Russell: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war."177 Even pro-Confederate British papers opposed the release of the ironclads. The Times admitted... | |
 | Warren F. Spencer - 1983 - 292 sayfa
...vessels; on the fifth, Adams wrote his famous "superfluous note": should the ships be allowed to depart, "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this means war." But before receiving this letter Lord John Russell had reached his decision, which was... | |
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It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war. 
