Quotes from a Biography on Woodrow Wilson - 28th president of the U.S. Leading newspapers such as the New York Tribune and the Los Angeles Times assured their readers that no American army was needed in Europe. General Hugh Scott, chief of the armys general staff, put a memorandum in his files to this effect, a month after Congress declared war. Simultaneously, the head of the British delegation, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, told Wilson about several secret treaties the Allies had signed with each other, dividing up Turkeys Middle Eastern provinces, Germanys African colonies, and large chunks of Europe and Asia. Wilsons noble war to save democracy suddenly became a war to make the world safe for imperialism. All right, I thought. Wilson was naive, like everyone else. But he could still lead the American people, thanks to the power of his oratory. Some years ago I had read the April 2 speech to Congress and had been deeply impressed by its eloquence. Rereading it, my throat tightened at the soaring last line, with its clever play on the famous quotation from Martin Luther,God helping us, we can do no other. Imagine my surprise when I again ventured into the Congressional Record and discovered there were three days of often ferocious arguments, in which leading liberal senators such as George Norris of Nebraska and Robert La Follette of Wisconsin assailed the president as a hypocrite and a tool of Wall Streets bankers, who had loaned so much money to the British, we had to go to war to bail them out. in 100 years... nothing has changed one bit - See more at: hnn.us/article/10198#sthash.uRTvRL05.dpuf
Posted on: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 21:01:54 +0000
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