“It is a fearful thing to lead this great, peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars,” the president lamented. On the cold dank evening of ApPresident Woodrow Wilson solemnly requested a joint session of Congress to declare war on Imperial Germany. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, August 19, 1919 Dakota): “ Do you think if Germany had committed no act of war or no act of injustice against our citizens that we would have gotten into this war?” Senate Foreign Relations Committee, April 4, 1917 “ I won’t vote for this war because if we go into it, we will never again have the same old Republic.” Woodrow Wilson, Address to Congress, April 2, 1917 “I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the Government and people of the United States.” Woodrow Wilson, March 19, 1917, as reported by Frank Cobb, New York World To fight, you must be ruthless, brutal and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter the very fiber of our national life.” “ Once lead this people in to war, and they’ll forget there was such a thing as toleration. (2017, Simon & Schuster) 378 pages with photo images, notes, and index War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918 (2017, University of Pennsylvania Press) 254 pages with notes, and index The Great War and American Foreign Policy, 1914-24

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