Woodrow Wilson: “We have not simply to conduct, but also to preserve and freshly adjust our government.”

I am in full sympathy with every sound proposal to promote foreign trade along sound business lines.

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.

No provision is made in the resolution for the preservation of any proportionate strength in the combatant corps of the Army.

In recommending to you that Congress take appropriate action with regard to this agreement, certain facts should be brought to your attention.