by G. J. Meyer
In 1875 Britain was producing: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 49.
In 1880 Britain’s factories accounted: Ferguson, Pity of War, 35.
Biographers of a psychoanalytic: Freud and Bullitt, Thomas Woodrow Wilson; Weinstein, Medical and Psychological; George and George, Wilson and House.
More recently it has been diagnosed: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 15.
As an undergraduate, he withdrew: Ibid., 43.
“in giving unqualified endorsement”: PWW, 2:98.
“education seems to be the chosen”: PWW, 2:99.
“That is the greatest statesman”: Osborn, Early Years, 28.
“immortal work”: PWW, 3:145.
“statesmanship consists not”: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 51.
“absorbing love for justice”: PWW, 1:620.
“I take my pen in hand to let”: McMath, American Populism, 181.
“we have a horror for the wild”: Clanton, Populism, 150.
“if they were”: Ibid., 130.
“to destroy class rule and”: Ibid., 86.
Chapter 3: Quickly to the Brink
“the demagogue, adroit, tricky”: Cooper, Warrior, 305.
“exceeds the manifest necessity”: Millis, Road to War, 121.
“certain it would be entirely footless”: PWW, 31:384.
“a just and equitable peace”: Cooper, Warrior, 275.
“Woodrow Wilson is today”: Berg, Wilson, 371.
In December 1915 the president’s physician: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 295.
(In 1935, by contrast, Congress would): Bailey, Wilson and Lost Peace, 11; Tansill, America Goes, 268.
“The president’s eyes were moist”: PWW, 32:121.
“God will sustain you in all”: PWW, 32:162.
As the ship approached the Irish: IPH, 1:365.
“contraband of war”: Karp, Politics of War, 308.
“is an open and declared belligerent”: Tansill, America Goes, 649 note 57.
On the very day that Wilson sent: Ibid., 285.
“sat by the fire in his library”: IPH, 1:378.
“peacemaking became for House”: Devlin, Too Proud, 265.
“I do not see a ray of hope”: Millis, Road to War, 141.
“now almost wholly controlled”: PWW, 32:237.
“did not want”: IPH, 1:378.
“get the machinery in order”: Devlin, Too Proud, 266.
“let it be understood that”: PWW, 35:44.
That the German public had not: Fuehr, Neutrality of Belgium, 88.
“what you suggest concerning”: IPH, 1:371.
The combined British-Belgian: Fuehr, Neutrality of Belgium, 88.
“a pretty little game of hypocrisy”: Ibid., 108.
“I brought them around”: IPH, 1:352.
“If peace parlays were begun now”: IPH, 1:404.
“The bitterness of their resentment”: IPH, 1:404.
“When the pinch of the blockade”: PWW, 35:122.
“one of the best types of German”: Devlin, Too Proud, 177.
“very promising”: Ibid., 278.
“Can an American by embarking”: PWW, 32:464.
“The troublesome question”: PWW, 32:487.
First he informed the president of having: PWW, 32:487.
“I cannot help feeling that”: PWW, 32:488.
“Why be shocked at the drowning”: Devlin, Too Proud, 213.
“I cannot see”: PWW, 33:66.
The dispatch said also: PWW, 32:527.
“if the sinking of the Falaba”: PWW, 32:465.
The United States, he said, would: Millis, Road to War, 171.
Background: The Tortoise and the Hare
“when you hear a good”: Kazin, Godly Hero, 121.
One Republican later gave thanks: Ibid., 49.
“What a speech, my masters!”: Ibid., 118.
“the prime duty of pietists”: Ibid., 124.
“The fruits of imperialism”: Ibid., 80.
“I have fallen in love with [Bryan]”: Ibid.
“all the lunatics, all the idiots”: Ibid., 105.
“good for forty acres of parked”: Ibid., 131.
“that undercurrent of restless”: George and George, Wilson and House, 24.
“remarkably intelligent”: Kazin, Godly Hero, 126.
“colds”: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 23.
“Although he would have been”: Myers, “President of Princeton,” 43.
“Personally, he is the most charming”: PWW, 18:4.
“all the loose notions”: PWW, 18:220.
“the perfect mania”: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 220.
“no mental rudder”: George and George, Wilson and House, 50.
“a professional yodeler”: Cooper, Warrior, 272.
“common council of the people”: PWW, 17:520.
“to give as little as he may”: Link, Wilson, 1:127.
“It may be true that women”: PWW, 18:4.
“If I can handle the matter”: Link, Wilson, 1:142.
“set about fighting and breaking”: PWW, 20:519.
“absolutely free in the matter”: Link, Wilson, 1:143.
In 1914, when as president: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 257.
“strange ascent”: Kerney, Political Education, xv.
“undoubtedly would have”: Myers, “President of Princeton,” 49.
“not only have no pledges”: Link, Wilson, 1:167.
He ticked off the measures: PWW, 21:91.
“The first hour we spent”: IPH, 1:45.
“has the opportunity to become”: IPH, 1:85.
“Never before have I found”: IPH, 1:48.
“we could do something”: Kazin, Godly Hero, 182.
“the middle class has put”: McGerr, Fierce Discontent, 280.
“We should earnestly urge”: PWW, 28:230; Millis, Road to War, 12.
“We shall yet prove to the Mexican”: PWW, 28:228.
Though he was back on his feet: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 251.
Chapter 4: Many Sacred Principles
A British technical journal of 1913: Tansill, America Goes, 284.
“Germany has a right to prevent”: PWW, 33:134.
“when a person boarded an English”: Tansill, America Goes, 276.
“Our intervention will save”: PWW, 33:134.
“there is such a thing as a man”: PWW, 33:149.
“many sacred principles of justice”: Millis, Road to War, 181.
“Both in mind and in heart”: PWW, 33:155.
“I join in this document with”: PWW, 33:165.
“I believe it will have a splendid”: PWW, 33:213.
“A person would have to be”: Karp, Politics of War, 208.
“Why,” he asked, “should we”: Devlin, Too Proud, 308.
“There is no doubt that the position”: PWW, 33:254.
“stiffen”: Millis, Road to War, 186.
Agriculture Secretary David Houston: PWW, 33:296.
When the meeting adjourned, an unhappy: Baker, Wilson: Life and Letters, 5:351.
“obedient to your sense of duty”: PWW, 33:375.
“I accept your resignation”: PWW, 33:376.
“the most contemptible figure”: Cooper, Warrior, 305.
“a man with not too many ideas”: Ibid., 291.
“mere rights of property”: Millis, Road to War, 193.
“unable to admit that American citizens”: Karp, Politics of War, 212.
“regrets to state that it has”: PWW, 33:527.
“I am supposed to have organized”: Ross, Propaganda, 205.
First Lord of the Admiralty: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 67.
“horrible”: Devlin, Too Proud, 414.
“was done contrary”: PWW, 33:320.
“you know well enough”: PWW, 33:297.
“For the first time in the history”: PWW, 33:299.
“disappoin
tment that the feeling”: Millis, Road to War, 227.
“to maintain our prosperity”: Ross, Propaganda, 162.
This resulted in a September: Link, Wilson: Revolution, 54; Tansill, America Goes, 112.
“he had never been sure that”: Ross, Propaganda, 162; Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 70.
“had lost our opportunity to break”: PWW, 35:43.
“My suggestion [to the president]”: IPH, 2:84.
“It has occurred to me”: IPH, 2:90.
On September 24 there was a second: Tansill, America Goes, 380 note 8.
In November, however, he: Chambers, Raise an Army, 103.
“The United States…wanted”: PWW, 35:474.
“replied definitely”: PWW, 35:474.
“only be ended by your”: PWW, 35:484.
“not nearly as cunning”: Devlin, Too Proud, 463.
Background: Mystery Voyage
“covered with a silvery”: Larson, Dead Wake, 242.
“The ship was sinking”: Ibid., 262.
Fifty-seven percent of the U-boats: O’Hara, Dickson, and Worth, Crown the Waves, 110.
“was not sent through”: Larson, Dead Wake, 267.
“appears to have displayed”: Ibid., 318.
One theory is that: Preston, Lusitania, 157; Simpson, Lusitania, 158.
“On the basis of the considerable”: Larson, Dead Wake, 32.
Chapter 5: Marked Cards and a Stacked Deck
“entire approval”: PWW, 35:498.
“I cannot adequately express”: PWW, 35:532.
“blundered badly”: Link, Wilson: Revolution, 16.
“I doubt whether a crisis”: PWW, 36:85.
“failed to secure peace”: PWW, 36:43.
House was pretending to Grey: Cooper, Warrior, 293; Ross, Propaganda, 154.
“more troubled than I have”: PWW, 36:209.
“The honor and self-respect”: PWW, 36:214.
“our situation is so serious”: Devlin, Too Proud, 323.
“a submarine commander”: PWW, 36:228.
“nobody ever held that”: Karp, Politics of War, 257.
“a single citizen should be”: Ibid., 250.
“according to international”: PWW, 36:232.
“leave the conference as”: PWW, 36:269.
“we are not so sure”: Karp, Politics of War, 278.
“not worth five minutes’ ”: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 77.
“carefully sprung trap”: Devlin, Too Proud, 471.
“sacred and indisputable”: PWW, 36:491.
“Right of free travel on the seas?”: Mead, Doughboys, 34.
“They mocked at us when”: Ibid., 32.
“I cannot understand”: Ibid.
“the greatest civilian”: Ross, Propaganda, 187.
“to go [to] the utmost limit”: PWW, 36:621.
“decidedly insolent tone”: Devlin, Too Proud, 482.
“I cannot see how we”: PWW, 36:629.
In fact, the idea of a global: Cooper, Warrior, 279.
It had been taken up: Cooper, Breaking, 11; Bailey, Wilson and Lost Peace, 188.
Its exports, which generated: Tansill, America Goes, 116.
“Oh, dear kindred spirit”: PWW, 33:117.
“Ah, my precious friend”: PWW, 33:124.
“mind is not of the first class”: Berg, Wilson, 373.
“How difficult it is”: Devlin, Too Proud, 502.
“I am, I must admit, about”: Ibid., PWW, 37:467.
“The aim of far-sighted”: Link, Wilson: Revolution, 26.
Background: Choosing Sides
From 1915 to 1917 it received: Chambers, Raise an Army, 82.
“I am sure that the country”: Thomas, Unsafe for Democracy, 29.
“there are citizens of”: Tansill, America Goes, 394.
Chapter 6: “A Dangerous Thing—To Inflame a People”
In each of the two years: Vincent, Politics of Hunger, 36.
As early as the autumn of 1914: Healy, Vienna, 40.
By 1917 fat intake per: Vincent, Politics of Hunger, 49.
“The fight…must be”: Devlin, Too Proud, 546.
And bigger, improved submarines: Ibid., 547.
“I regard him as a ruthless”: Ibid., 466.
Many voters found it: Cooper, Warrior, 308.
“pouring poison into”: Kennedy, Over Here, 24; Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 65.
“I was entirely willing”: PWW, 38:646.
“no one can see [the president]”: George and George, Wilson and House, 187.
“It is difficult to explain exactly”: Devlin, Too Proud, 469.
“The president dominates everything”: Ibid.
“absolute conquerors”: Ibid., 568.
“It is a dangerous thing”: IPH, 1:403.
“one of the most egregious”: Link, Wilson: Revolution, 56.
“the speedy assembly, on neutral”: PWW, 40:331.
“prevent at all costs any”: Tansill, America Goes, 630.
“He said that you [Wilson] are”: PWW, 40:355.
“without warning”: Tansill, America Goes, 633.
But fully one-third of Britain’s: Link, Wilson: Revolution, 58.
“Germany finds herself”: Tansill, America Goes, 62.
“it does not regard it”: Ibid., 120.
They did, however, acknowledge: PWW, 40:439.
He took a train to New York: PWW, 40:477.
“the most important communication”: Devlin, Too Proud, 614.
“We have modified submarine war”: PWW, 40:464.
“Upon a triumph which overwhelms”: MPWW, 1:348.
“at heart an abject coward”: Berg, Wilson, 378.
“Peace without victory is the natural”: Cooper, Warrior, 315.
“If Germany wants peace she”: PWW, 41:3.
House urged the ambassador: Devlin, Too Proud, 617.
Background: The War of Words—and Pictures
“a face at once repulsive”: Ross, Propaganda, 78.
“England owes her influence”: Ibid., 28.
German soldiers cut off: Ibid., 24.
“The inhabitants of Bernot”: New York Times, August 7, 1914.
“In spirit fairness we unite”: Ross, Propaganda, 48.
The gesture cost him nothing: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 54.
“the debt that England owes”: Ibid., 63.
“When a mad dog runs amuck”: Ross, Propaganda, 191.
“already the hemp is grown”: Ibid.
The chilling pictures of a Dutch: Raemaekers, Cartoons, 1.
“racial and national prejudice”: Ross, Propaganda, 43.
Evidence has recently come: Souhami, Edith Cavell, 106.
Nor is it likely that Allied: Ross, Propaganda, 70; Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 60.
Chapter 7: Onward, Christian Soldiers
“consistent with the dignity”: PWW, 41:108.
“that anyone who failed”: Devlin, Too Proud, 646.
William Jennings Bryan brought: Tansill, America Goes, 650.
In a conversation with French: Devlin, Too Proud, 655.
“the country is not willing”: PWW, 40:282.
“as soon as the outbreak of war”: Millis, Road to War, 404.
“the most dramatic moment”: Devlin, Too Proud, 651.
“to employ any other instrumentalities”: PWW, 41:283.
From the start of the war through 1915: Carlisle, Sovereignty, 35.
Even as attacks and sinkings: Ibid., 175.
“deplorable”: Millis, Road to War, 405.
“yellow peril”: Devlin, Too Proud, 636, 638.
“ought to be hung”: Unger, Fighting Bob, 247.
“mobilize Christian strength”: Millis, Road to War, 412.
Background: Troublemaker
“perhaps the least known”: Unger, Fighting Bob, 47.
“vagueness and reiteration”: George and George, Wilson and House, 108.
“The supreme issue”: Unger, Fig
hting Bob, 103.
Chapter 8: Why
“He said when a war got going”: Cooper, Warrior, 319.
Thomas Fleming, in The Illusion: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 6.
What the president talked about: PWW, 41:482.
“over which we have no control”: PWW, 41:332.
“a little group of willful men”: IPH, 2:460.
an improbable diagnosis: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 22, 49.
“the wonderful and heartening”: PWW, 41:524.
“concerning grave matters”: Devlin, Too Proud, 666.
“every true American heart”: Millis, Road to War, 422.
“We have had weak presidents”: Devlin, Too Proud, 466.
Weinstein has traced it to stories: Weinstein, Medical and Psychological, 12.
“we are going into this war”: Zucker, George Norris, 129.
Between August 1914 and March 1917: Tansill, America Goes, 53.
“We want him to come into the war”: PWW, 40:355.
“I believe…that our future influence”: PWW, 41:425.
“As head of a nation participating”: PWW, 40:305.
Chapter 9: “A Message of Death”
As was his practice, the colonel declared it: IPH, 2:471.
“formally accept the status”: PWW, 41:519.
“expressed in the loftiest”: Berg, Wilson, 438.
“It is needless to say that no”: PWW, 40:528.
“think about what it was”: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 21.
“vain and foolish thing”: Millis, Road to War, 447.
“mad desire to conquer”: Ibid., 448; Ryley, Little Group, 161.
“I shall vote against this mistake”: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 31.
“The failure to treat the belligerent”: Ibid., 33.
“Anti-American president, anti-American Congress”: Millis, Road to War, 452.
“That is the greatest speech”: Fleming, Illusion of Victory, 36; Karp, Politics of War, 322.
“I take my cap off”: Millis, Road to War, 412.
“Ask your friends around you”: Ibid., 453.
“the whole yelping pack”: Ibid., 454.