Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"The Government of the United States earnestly protested."

"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 has therefore become painfully evident that the position which this Government took at the very outset is inevitable."

"preference will be given the prior legal applicant, notwithstanding such unlawful settlement or occupancy"