Sir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice, was a British diplomat who served as British Ambassador to the United States from 1912 to 1918, as which he was responsible for the organisation of British efforts to end American neutrality during the First World War.
Sir Cecil Spring Rice in court dress.
Spring Rice (second from left) signing the third US War Loan to Britain in 1917.
Spring Rice maintained a close friendship with President Theodore Roosevelt and served as best man at his second wedding.
The memorial plaque to Sir Cecil Spring Rice on the lower bridge at Aira Force, Cumbria.
United States in World War I
The United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917, nearly three years after World War I started. A ceasefire and armistice were declared on November 11, 1918. Before entering the war, the U.S. had remained neutral, though it had been an important supplier to the United Kingdom, France, and the other powers of the Allies of World War I.
Two American soldiers run towards a bunker.
A 1915 political cartoon about the United States neutrality
Anti-German sentiment spiked after the sinking of the Lusitania. This recruiting poster depicts a drowning mother and child.
The Landship Recruit in Union Square in New York City