...toward winning this war was taken when the President of the United States, on April 2d, in advising Congress to declare the existence of a state of war with Germany, pointed out what war would involve and demand. The striking thing about that historic address was not...

...either would not be a good thing for the world. Yet it is interesting to compare this letter of Mr. Page with the famous speech which the President made six...peace, that the United States owes it to its democratic tradition to take up arms against the enemy of free government, that in doing this, it was not making...

...take seriously the activities of a President whose own political position was insecure. At the tune Page's letter was received, the President was thinking...existence of a state of war with Germany. Practically ah1 the important reasons which Mr. Wilson then advanced for this declaration are found in Page's letter...

...military, financial and economic power. Page's great moment came on April 2 1917, when President Wilson asked Congress to declare the existence of a state of war with Germany, and in his speech used arguments that Page had been forcing on his attention for three and a half years....