PRESIDENT HOPKINS ON THE WAR SITUATION

President Hopkins in an interview for the New York Times for February 4, gave the following statement regarding the present situation:

"President Wilson should have the support of every loyal citizen of the United States in the action he has taken, and will have it in a very large measure, I believe. There is no room for partisanship now.

"No government ever bore the affronts of another more patiently than has the United States those of Germany. Action has been withheld time and time again, in order to make new efforts for an undertaking that could be made acceptable to both nations.

"The flagrant insult of the warnings to Americans to refrain from taking passage on the "Lusitania" has now been intensified by attempted dictation as to when and where American ships shall go, and meanwhile an intolerable disregard of the right of citizens of the United States even to live has been shown. Such conditions could not continue.

"The inevitable crisis brings great soberness of thought but since it was to be inevitable, there is at least satisfaction in knowing it now rather than to have realization of it delayed. The time has come for the nation to demonstrate that if it has had almost infinite patience, it has had meanwhile convictions and ideals which in the last analysis it will insist upon at any cost."