Source: File: Woodrow Wilson is sworn in to his second term as
President of the United States by Chief Justice Edward Douglass White. See an original image at: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WilsonInauguration1917.jpg>
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Sunday 4 March
1917, the day
President Wilson made
an oath
To enter a second
term in post.
Entering a more somber
period
Of his presidency
- expectancy
Awaited an inaugural
speech.
The talk centered
around an
'Armed Neutrality
Bill,' when
President Wilson
would gain
Powers, to arm
all merchant
Vessels, against
the piracy
Being carried out
by Germany.
96 members of the
senate
Saw total of 83
supporting
Moves to armed
neutrality -
For all intent and
purposes
America was acting out war,
As seen in correspondence.
While from
reliable sources
Representatives, Senators
Any kind of
declaration lay
In the hands of
congress;
The
Representatives house
Of 416 votes saw 403
united.
They favoured 'Armed
Ship
Bill,' to note
how events
And the timing of,
perhaps
Declaring war, had
become
Shadowed by fact
in armed
Ships, making a
declaration.
An isolationism
that USA
Had maintained
for more
Than two years
had altered,
After a German
submarine
Covered the great
distance
Of sailing the
Atlantic ocean.
A new reality had
been born,
To show how United
States of
America was part
of the world.
Overriding the
people's beliefs
In refraining
from any meddling
In European continent's affairs.
With the revealed
plot aimed
Towards USA - to set attempts
To utilize
Japanese forces on
An Mexican
platform, intent
To invade American
soil - akin
To the 1914
Belgium invasion.
A German telegram effectively
Declared themselves
as enemy
To the USA,
sentiments were
Swiftly stirred to
fight on allies
Side - rather
than to fight as a
Completely
separate nation.
The propaganda
machine
Of Germany within
the USA
Reached a
crossroads - they
Could not deny
discovery
Of the German
plot - though
Newspapers attempted
a ploy.
New Yorker, Staats-Zeitung
And Gaelic American, gave
The idea to their readers that
The Zimmermann
Note was
In fact an
English forgery,
Planted to create
conflict.
Flying in the
face of Berlin,
Admissions and sentiments
Inflamed a majority among
People of America,
which
Awaited Vienna’s
response
In supporting Germany.
Yet the feeling
of situation
Being all out of
proportion
To lay in a certain minority -
If memebers in the senate
Might block the bill, Woodrow
Wilson could override
them.
by Jamie Mann.
Source: File: Second Inaugural Address of
Woodrow Wilson. Yale Law
School - The Avalon Project. Available at: <http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/wilson2.asp>
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Source: File:
U.S. Presidential Inaugurations: Woodrow Wilson. Available at: <https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/inaugurations/wilson/index.html>
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Source: File: The
Washington times., March 05, 1917, Complete Afternoon Edition, Image 1. Available at: <http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84026749/1917-03-05/ed-1/seq-1/>
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