“When the decision to take up arms was reached by Congress in April of 1917, national Doubt was at once replaced by national Determination. The well-nigh universal acclaim with which the President’s War Message had been greeted naturally made opposition to war intensely unpopular. The six Senators and fifty Representatives who voted against the declaration [of war] must be recognized in retrospect as brave men [with one brave woman].”
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President Wilson's war message met with enthusiasm later regrettedamerican ww1 intervention in retrospectamerican ww1 intervention reconsidered 1939american problems with wars of foreign intervention 1939remembering woodrow wilson's war declarationamerican war enthusiasm wanes during ww I
