Word: belli
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...course of the war, for the rights or convenience of Americans on the seas? One naturally feels prompted to ask further: "If the loss of American lives, resulting from our insistence on entering the war-zone established around the sea-coast of the Entente Powers, constitutes a casus belli, why may we not put into practice the sound policy embodied in the ill-fated McLemore Resolution, tabled, contrary to the best conviction of the majority of our Congressmen in response to dictatorial party pressure brought to bear upon them? In thus warning our citizens off belligerent vessels our Government would...