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Con- cluding his point with a rather melodramatic flourish , he stated , " We have helped to drive Germany into a corner , her back to the wall , to fight with what weapons she can lay her hands on to prevent the starving of her women ...
Con- cluding his point with a rather melodramatic flourish , he stated , " We have helped to drive Germany into a corner , her back to the wall , to fight with what weapons she can lay her hands on to prevent the starving of her women ...
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For had the President told the American electorate that if he were reelected their sons might be shipped across the Atlantic to fight , he " could not have carried a single State in this Union , " concluded Keating .
For had the President told the American electorate that if he were reelected their sons might be shipped across the Atlantic to fight , he " could not have carried a single State in this Union , " concluded Keating .
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by alluding to some of the war aims set forth by the President on April 2 : ... we shall fight ... for democracy , for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments ... for a universal dominion of ...
by alluding to some of the war aims set forth by the President on April 2 : ... we shall fight ... for democracy , for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments ... for a universal dominion 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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