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Title: Woodrow Wilson and the World War
A Chronicle of Our Own Times.

Author: Charles Seymour

Release Date: June 20, 2007 [EBook #21877]

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THE YALE CHRONICLES
OF AMERICA SERIES

ALLEN JOHNSON
EDITOR

GERHARD R. LOMER
CHARLES W. JEFFERYS
ASSISTANT EDITORS

WOODROW WILSON
AND THE WORLD WAR

A CHRONICLE OF OUR OWN TIMES
BY CHARLES SEYMOUR
1921

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TORONTO: GLASGOW, BROOK & CO.
NEW YORK: UNITED STATES PUBLISHERS
ASSOCIATION, INC.

_Copyright, 1921, by Yale University Press_

Printed in the United States of America

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CONTENTS

I. WILSON THE EXECUTIVE Page 1

II. NEUTRALITY " 27

III. THE SUBMARINE " 47

IV. PLOTS AND PREPAREDNESS " 71

V. AMERICA DECIDES " 94

VI. THE NATION IN ARMS " 116

VII. THE HOME FRONT " 150

VIII. THE FIGHTING FRONT " 192

IX. THE PATH TO PEACE " 228

X. WAYS OF THE PEACE CONFERENCE " 254

XI. BALANCE OF POWER OR LEAGUE OF NATIONS? " 281

XII. THE SETTLEMENT " 310

XIII. THE SENATE AND THE TREATY " 330

XIV. CONCLUSION " 352

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE " 361

INDEX " 367

WOODROW WILSON AND THE WORLD WAR

CHAPTER I

WILSON THE EXECUTIVE