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Bill Taft: “The United States has happily been involved neither directly nor indirectly with the causes or questions incident to any…”

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The United States has happily been involved neither directly nor indirectly with the causes or questions incident to any of these hostilities and has maintained in regard to them an attitude of absolute neutrality and of complete political disinterestedness.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft asserts the United States' position of neutrality during conflicts in the Near East, emphasizing its disinterest in foreign hostilities.

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