...President Wilson led the way in his Flag Day speech on June 14, 1917:"Woe to the man or group of men who seeks to stand in our way in this day of high resolution." A few months later, Attorney General Thomas Gregory warned dissenters to expect no mercy "from an outraged...

...those divisions of opinion unfortunate in peacetime, he regarded them as intolerable after April 1917. "Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way," he warned peace advocates in June 1917. They had small idea, as yet, just how much woe was to befall...

...stern repression," and in a Flag Day address that same year he sounded an even more ominous warning: "Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand...and made secure for the salvation of the nations."" 9 War had changed everything. The most obvious manifestation of that, of course, was the Committee...

...all these hypocricies and patent cheats and masks of brute force and help set the world free." "\Ye are ready to plead at the bar of history and our flag shall wear a new lustre." "Once more we shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were...