A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1922, Volume 17Bureau of national literature and art, 1917 - Presidents |
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Page 8125
... citizens , was torpedoed while crossing from Folkstone to Dieppe . The Sussex had never been armed ; was a vessel known to be habitually used only for the conveyance of passengers across the English Channel , and was not following the ...
... citizens , was torpedoed while crossing from Folkstone to Dieppe . The Sussex had never been armed ; was a vessel known to be habitually used only for the conveyance of passengers across the English Channel , and was not following the ...
Page 8128
... citizens have met with in the mean- time . The German Government still stands by its offer to come to an agreement along these lines . As the German Government repeatedly declared , it cannot dispense with the use of the submarine ...
... citizens have met with in the mean- time . The German Government still stands by its offer to come to an agreement along these lines . As the German Government repeatedly declared , it cannot dispense with the use of the submarine ...
Page 8131
... citizens have suffered by the crimes of the fugitives . With the same spirit of cordial friendship the Government of the United States will exercise the privilege granted by the de facto Government of Mexico , in the hope and confident ...
... citizens have suffered by the crimes of the fugitives . With the same spirit of cordial friendship the Government of the United States will exercise the privilege granted by the de facto Government of Mexico , in the hope and confident ...
Page 8132
... citizens , sometimes carrying American citizens across the international boundary with the booty seized . American garrisons have been attacked at night , American soldiers killed and their equipment and horses stolen ; American ranches ...
... citizens , sometimes carrying American citizens across the international boundary with the booty seized . American garrisons have been attacked at night , American soldiers killed and their equipment and horses stolen ; American ranches ...
Page 8133
... citizens in the town of Columbus on the night of March 9 , the details of which do not need repetition here in order to refresh your memory with the heinousness of the crime . After murdering , burning and plundering Villa and his ...
... citizens in the town of Columbus on the night of March 9 , the details of which do not need repetition here in order to refresh your memory with the heinousness of the crime . After murdering , burning and plundering Villa and his ...
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Act of Congress affixed alien enemies Alien Property Custodian ally of enemy approved Army Austria-Hungary authority vested belligerent caused the seal citizens declared defensive sea area Department District of Columbia duty Enemy Act enemy or ally entitled An Act EXECUTIVE ORDER facto Government Federal Reserve Board forces foreign Fuel Administrator German Empire guaranteed hand and caused hereunto set hundred and eighteen hundred and forty-second hundred and seventeen Imperial German Government interest issued justice labor liberty license Lord one thousand Majesty's Government ment military nations nautical miles naval Navy necessary neutral officers peace person possession power and authority prescribed President principles production purpose registration ROBERT LANSING rules and regulations Russia Secretary Section secure set my hand ships supply territory thereof things thousand nine hundred tion trade vessel virtue War Trade Board wheat Whereas WHITE HOUSE witness whereof WOODROW WILSON
Popular passages
Page 8229 - ... we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts — for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.
Page 8412 - A free, open-minded, and absolutely impartial adjustment of all colonial claims, based upon a strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the interests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the Government whose title is to be determined.
Page 8225 - We are at the beginning of an age in which it will be insisted that the same standards of conduct and of responsibility for wrong done shall be observed among nations and their governments that are observed among the individual citizens of civilized states.
Page 8380 - That the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared...
Page 8298 - ... under such regulations and orders, and subject to such limitations and exceptions as the President shall prescribe, until otherwise ordered by the President or by Congress: Provided, however, That no preference shall be given to the ports of one State over those of another.
Page 8226 - ... political structure, long as it had stood and terrible as was the reality of its power, was not in fact Russian in origin, character, or purpose; and now it has been shaken off and the great, generous Russian people have been added, in all their naive majesty and might, to the forces that are fighting for freedom in the world, for justice, and for peace. Here is a fit, partner for a League of Honor.
Page 8416 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.
Page 8397 - States is hereby formally declared, and that the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States...
Page 8203 - Unless the Imperial Government should now immediately declare and effect an abandonment of its present methods of submarine warfare against passenger and freight-carrying vessels, the Government of the United States can have no choice but to sever diplomatic relations with the German Empire altogether.
Page 8227 - ... for the ultimate peace of the world and for the liberation of its peoples, the German people included : for the rights of nations great and small and the privilege of men everywhere to choose their way of life and of obedience. The world must be made safe for democracy.