Word: lansinger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Lansing, second Wilson Secretary of State : He might have stopped the German submarine attacks which he said brought the U. S. into the War. Instead he knuckled under to the Allies.
William Joel Stone of Missouri, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee: He saw that Wilson and Lansing were siding with Britain against Germany, fought hard to restore the balance of neutrality. When Secretary Lansing privately argued that loss of life (German submarines) merited more drastic treatment than loss of...
Accordingly, the proposition was submitted secretly to the Allies, got a prompt, flat rejection from Foreign Secretary Grey. Aggrieved, Secretary Lansing wrote to the President: "It seems to me that the British Government expected us to denounce submarine warfare as inhuman and to deny the right to use submarines in...
¶ As early as Aug. 3, 1914, Morgan & Co. received a cablegram from Rothschild Freres of Paris suggesting a loan of $100,000,000 to France. Morgan answered that because of exchange conditions, they could not make the loan and would not do so, in any event, without the U...
As long historical documents were read, as the examination rambled over them without startling disclosures, as day by day the evidence showed no visible connection between the House of Morgan and Secretaries McAdoo and Lansing, who alone appeared to have urged President Wilson to let war loans be floated in...