AMERICA'S CHOICE
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America refuses the olive branch from "the ugly talons of the sinister power."
President Wilson's Address on Flag Day, June 14, 1917.
We know now clearly, as we knew before we ourselves were engaged in the war, that we are not enemies of the German people, and they are not our enemies. They did not originate, or desire, this hideous war, or wish that we should be drawn into it, and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting their cause, as they will some day see it themselves, as well as our own. They themselves are in the grip of the same sinister power that has stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us.
President Wilson, Washington, June 14, 1917.
