“When the decision to take up arms was reached by Congress in April of 1917, national Doubt was at once replaced by national Determination. The well-nigh universal acclaim with which the President’s War Message had been greeted naturally made opposition to war intensely unpopular. The six Senators and fifty Representatives who voted against the declaration [of war] must be recognized in retrospect as brave men [with one brave woman].”
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