Woodrow Wilson: “Because it was incredible we made no preparation for it.”

For many months there has been a demand that war agencies should be abolished and that there should be less Government interference with business.

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.

The soundness of the principle embodied in Section io seems generally to be admitted.

We shall not witness an immediate satisfactory adjustment of domestic and international trade relations.