 With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking and of the grave responsibilities which it involves, but in unhesitating obedience to what I deem my constitutional duty, I advise that the Congress declare the recent...  America and the Great War for Humanity and Freedom - Страница 20написао/ла Willis Fletcher Johnson - 1917 - 352 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Carol Dommermuth-Costa - 2002 - 124 страница
...ask. Finally, his voice took on a deeper solemnity as he got to the most important part of his speech. "With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...war against the Government and people of the United States." President Wilson was asking Congress to declare war on Germany. The United States was about... | |
 | Marshall Cavendish Corporation - 2002 - 150 страница
...Madison — Manuscript Reading Room. Presidential Papers — Woodrow Wilson — Series 7A- Reel #479. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has been thrust upon it; and that it... | |
 | Thomas Fleming - 2008 - 352 страница
...to the very roots of human life." With renewed solemnity, Wilson asked the Congress to declare "the course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the people of the United States." It was time to "formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 страница
...crafted speech reaching several crescendos and punctuated by cheers. More in sorrow than in anger, "with a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step 1 am taking," Wilson asked for a declaration of war. Amid what already seemed a pointless bloodbath,... | |
 | Richard F. Hamilton, Holger H. Herwig - 2003 - 558 страница
...declare that a state of war existed between the United States and Germany. Wilson also stressed his "profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character" of the step he was taking and declared he was still seeking the kind of settlement to the war and new world order... | |
 | Ruth Tenzer Feldman - 2004 - 104 страница
...them that the United States would fight to "make the world safe for democracy." He asked Congress to "declare the recent course of the Imperial German...war against the government and people of the United States." The wild applause that followed shocked Wilson deeply. After returning to the White House,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto - 2005 - 294 страница
...against which we now array ourselves are no common wrongs; they cut to the very roots of human life. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that... | |
 | Donald E. Schmidt - 2005 - 386 страница
...feeling toward them but one of sympathy and friendship....The world must be made safe for democracy. With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical...war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it; and that... | |
 | Van Lee - 2005 - 198 страница
...nation, but only the vindication of right, of human right, of which we are only a single champion.... "With a profound sense of the solemn and even tragical character of the step I am taking... I advise that [the US] formally accept the status of belligerent that has thus been trust upon it....... | |
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