Woodrow Wilson: “I direct that the greatest care be exercised by Department officials in issuing the affidavits of necessity”

I shall adopt twenty of these children as my own temporary wards.

I suggest to my fellow-countrymen that the circles around their Christmas trees will be incomplete unless, mingled with their own expectant children, they shall visualize some of the waifs of Central Europe.

In my opinion the legislation proposed is not in the public interest and is objectionable.

The burdens of war are not lifted when the fighting ceases.