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Bill Taft: “But if I take this step, I must face the possibility of resistance and greater bloodshed, and also the danger of having…”

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But if I take this step, I must face the possibility of resistance and greater bloodshed, and also the danger of having our motives misconstrued and misrepresented, and of thus inflaming Mexican popular indignation against many thousand Americans now in Mexico and jeopardizing their lives and property.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Taft expresses the potential consequences of military action, including resistance and increased bloodshed, as well as the risk to Americans in Mexico.

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