 | Howard Jones - 2008 - عدد الصفحات: 640
...the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it...of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it. ... submarine commanders, leaving the president no choice but to seek war. At 8:30 on the warm, rainy... | |
 | 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 1034
...world. THE WAR AND THE CONSTITUTION BY HENRY JONES FORD ON April 2 the President asked Congress to 'take immediate steps, not only to put the country...state of defense, but also to exert all its power.' Congress, as a body, did not begin to act until April 19, when the House Military Affairs Committee... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 110
...taking I advise that Congress formally accept the status of belligerant which has been thrust upon us and that it take immediate steps not only to put the country in a state of defense, but also — And these are the words I have in mind — but also to exert all of... | |
 | عدد الصفحات: 632
...less than war against the United States." Nevertheless, he admitted that it belonged to Congress to " formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust upon it." Congress did so by a resolution signed by the President i :i8 pm, April 6, 1917, which asserted "that... | |
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I advise that the Congress declare the recent course of the Imperial German Government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States; that it formally accept the status of belligerent which has thus been thrust... 
