“ They are the sort of persons who get mixed up in a foreign war and then cry loudly to the state department to help them out if they get in trouble. Try as it may to maintain neutrality, the government cannot prevent adventurers of the Acosta type from sticking their noses into other people's affairs. Officially, it is not responsible for them but the hue and cry that would arise were Acosta, for example, condemned to be shot over in Spain can easily be imagined. These American flyers have not even the redeeming quality of fighting for patriotic reasons. ”