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INTRODUCTION There can be little doubt that the majority of the American people stood behind President Woodrow Wilson's call to Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in April , 1917. Even the national political spokesmen ...
INTRODUCTION There can be little doubt that the majority of the American people stood behind President Woodrow Wilson's call to Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in April , 1917. Even the national political spokesmen ...
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... 1917 , the President had pushed the United States to within one step of outright belligerency ; he had begun the arming ... member of President Wilson's own party , Representative Perl Decker of Missouri , had said : It may be true ...
... 1917 , the President had pushed the United States to within one step of outright belligerency ; he had begun the arming ... member of President Wilson's own party , Representative Perl Decker of Missouri , had said : It may be true ...
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As a member of President Wilson's own party , Representative Perl Decker of Missouri , had said : It may be true ... that under International law the United States has a right ... to allow a citizen to load his ship with munitions of ...
As a member of President Wilson's own party , Representative Perl Decker of Missouri , had said : It may be true ... that under International law the United States has a right ... to allow a citizen to load his ship with munitions of ...
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Contents
The People versus the Interests | 19 |
The Anathemas Foreign Entanglements | 34 |
A Great Step Backward | 48 |
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| Title | Congressional Opposition to War: 1917 |
| Author | Clarence Ruben Stay |
| Contributor | Stanford University. Department of History |
| Publisher | Stanford University, 1961 |
| Length | 162 pages |
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