06/28/1916
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"It has therefore become painfully evident that the position which this Government took at the very outset is inevitable."
"We owe it to a due regard for our own rights as a nation, to our sense of duty as a representative of the rights of neutrals the world over, and to a just conception of the rights of mankind to take t..."
"it appears that the public good will be promoted by adding certain lands to the Alamo National Forest, within the State of New Mexico"
"in my judgement it is proper and necessary in the interest of equal opportunity and good administration that all of the lands hereby excluded from the Alamo National Forest subject to disposition shou..."