01/21/1917
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"What great nation in such circumstances would not have taken up arms?"
"It is plain enough how we were forced into the war."
"Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very centre of Europe and beyond the Mediterranean into the heart of Asia."
"It is hereby ordered that through the Secretary of the Navy there be taken over to the United States the immediate possession and title of and to the German vessel Staatssekretar Solf, now lying at Tu..."