Woodrow Wilson actually said...

It is further declared that the current status of war constitutes an \extraordinary emergency\

Executive Order 2605—Suspending Eight-Hour Law in Contracts Under the War Department

04/27/1917

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The covenant in another portion guarantees to the members the independent control of their domestic questions.

Just so certainly as they do that, my fellow citizens, war will be in the far background, war will be pushed out of that foreground of terro...

There is no validity in a vote, either by the council or the assembly, in which we do not concur.

The council advises, and it cannot advise without the vote of the United States.