 | Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 626 lapas
...was seriously considering detention. Adams had meanwhile sent his famous despatch to Earl Russell: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." The Foreign Office after careful investigation was satisfied that the so-called French ownership of... | |
 | Guy Carleton Lee, Francis Newton Thorpe - 1906 - 700 lapas
...was seriously considering detention. Adams had meanwhile sent his famous despatch to Earl Russell: "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." The Foreign Office after careful investigation was satisfied that the so-called French ownership of... | |
 | 1906 - 794 lapas
...yourself to try what you can do with yourself. (Contributed.) ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS, Sr. VIII, 351. It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war. (Despatch to Karl Russell, against permitting the Confederate Ironclads, then building at Laird's Shipyards,... | |
 | Willem Johannes Leyds - 1906 - 424 lapas
...the departure of an ironclad that had been built in England for the South, wrote to Lord Eussell that "it would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." During this period also (1861-66) there was a war with the Maoris in New Zealand ; an expectation of... | |
 | Pierce Butler - 1906 - 472 lapas
...Adams's famous note of September 5th, in regard to the imminent escape of the two rams at Birkenhead : "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." The vessels, so desperately needed in the Confederacy, were detained. But the prudent envoy waited... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1906 - 622 lapas
...Government;"2 but this the minister did not receive until after he had despatched his note, saying, "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war."8 September 5 Russell ordered that the vessels " be prevented from leaving Liverpool " on a trial... | |
 | Diego Alvarez Chanca - 1907 - 774 lapas
...devastation, Mr. Adams wrote Earl Russell, stated the case very simply, and used these memorable words, " It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." This cool, plain, straightforward statement, made in the right manner, to the right man, at the right... | |
 | Harold Josling - 1907 - 434 lapas
...departure of an ironclad that had been built in England for the South, wrote to Lord Russell that " it would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war." During this period also (1861-66) there was a war with the Maoris in New Zealand ; an expectation of... | |
 | James Kendall Hosmer - 1907 - 414 lapas
...took the responsibility of stopping her, and eventually purchased both vessels. Adams's quiet hint, "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war," came after orders had been issued for the detention, but was a hint which could not be mistaken, and... | |
 | James Alton James, Albert Hart Sanford - 1909 - 602 lapas
...but now, realizing the crisis of the moment, he wrote to Earl Russell, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, "It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war" (September, 1863). The Cabinet policy was reversed, the rams were detained, and afterward they were... | |
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It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war. 
