314

Tumulty, J. P., Wilson and, 18

Turkey, collapse, 224, 228

Tyrol, Italian claim in, 288, 311;
Italy granted territory, 326

Underwood, O. W., motion for ratification of treaty, 344

United States, foreign policy, 30-36;
material change due to war (1914-16), 66-68;
blindness to war issues, 68;
reasons for entering war, 114-15

United States Shipping Board, 175

Vanceboro (Maine), German plot to destroy bridge at, 75

_Vaterland_ rechristened _Leviathan_, 179

Venezuelan crisis, 30

Venizelos, Eleutherios, and Council of Ten, 273-74;
member of League of Nations commission, 289;
on League, 328

Vera Cruz, occupation of, 86

Vickers machine guns, 137

_Vigilancia_ torpedoed, 111

Villa, Francisco, expedition against, 87, 123

War Industries Board, 156, 188

War Labor Policies Board, 182

War Trade Board, 179, 259

Washington, George, warns against entangling alliances, 28

Welland Canal, German plot to destroy, 75-76

Wesleyan University, Wilson as professor at, 3

White, Henry, at Algeciras Conference, 34;
on Peace Commission, 249

_Wilhelmina_, British seize, 43

Willard, Daniel, on Council of National Defense, 155

Wilson, Woodrow, as an executive, 1 _et seq._;
elected President, 1, 8;
age, 2;
early life, 2;
personal characteristics, 2-3, 8 _et seq._;
_Congressional Government_, thesis, 3;
Professor at Princeton, 3;
graduate work at Johns Hopkins, 3;
President of Princeton, 4;
enters politics, 5;
Governor of New Jersey, 5-7;
Presidential nomination, 7-8;
Cabinet, 13-14, 153-54;
appointments, 13-15;
social relations, 17;
tactical mistakes, 18, 19-20, 247-48, 292;
speeches, 19;
as phrase-maker, 19, 51-52;
unpopularity, 19-20, 68-70, 89, 245-46, 253, 332, 337-38;
political principles, 20-23;
religious convictions, 23-24;
and foreign affairs, 25-26, 35;
and neutrality, 39-41;
and mediation, 41-42, 99, 100;
and proposed embargo on munitions, 44;
answer to German submarine proclamation, 46;
and House, 47, 48;
diplomatic struggle with Germany, 52-57;
and right of merchantmen to arm for defense, 58-60, 110-11;
_Sussex_ note to Germany, 61-62;
change in foreign policy, 63-65;
on German-Americans, 79-80, 90, 91;
and preparedness, 81, 82, 84-85, 90, 117-118, 151;
speech-making tour (1916), 83-84;
and Mexico, 86-88;
political strength, 88-89;
reelection (1916), 88-93, 99;
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