Word: wilson
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...Wilson has maintained toward Mexico, Mr. Paine says, "a policy of allowing the Mexicans to rid themselves of a government which, in conjunction with unscrupulous foreign capitalists, has exploited and robbed Mexico." The gentle and humanitarian policy of "allowing" the Mexicans to "rid themselves" of oppression, etc., has seemed rather more like a policy of unwarrantable and secretly conducted interference, to the end of destroying the only hope of stable government that Mexico possessed, of plunging her into the years of anarchy that followed and enraging her against us. "To have intervened would have meant the armed occupation of Mexico...
Just how the differences and inconsistencies in the arguments of various Republicans can be made an issue (without deliberate levity) by any one who supports President Wilson is hard to see. Mr. Hughes may indeed have widely different supporters, but "straight Americanism" will be enough for them all, although it may bore the Democrats as a "platitude". By insisting on the respecting of our rights by Germany, through a genuine threat of force, Mr. Hughes will satisfy the Roosevelt sentiment; in gaining a fair treatment from England of our mails and cargoes he will satisfy his German American supporters...
...Wilson Created Danger...
...necessary, as long as we would stand for it. Her vague "unsatisfactory" notes did not suggest blunt defiance. She never was directly hostile, and we do her wrong in saying she would have declared war on us even if we had broken off diplomatic relations. We also give Mr. Wilson a bit too much credit when we laud him for keeping us out of war, the only dangers of which were provoked by his weakness. P. W. WHITTLESEY...
...does not seem proper to leave unchallenged the persuasive defence of Mr. Wilson published by Mr. A. G. Paine in the CRIMSON of October 27, especially since its effectiveness depends largely on overlooking well-known phases of those topics which it touches. Mr. Paine begins by clearing the field of improper issues. First he says: "Americanism and Preparedness can no longer be called issues, for they have been definitely and rightly settled." Mr. Paine says that Mr. Wilson has definitely repudiated the hyphenates--but, of course, he has not heard of the appeals made by the President's representatives...