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Show M I, ,M I HIM ! , ITION RECALLS TENJTEARS J160 WAR DECLARATION AGAINST GERMANY COMPLETED; CHIEF ACTORS ARE DEAD Wilson, Kltchin, Flood, La Follette and Martin All in Their Graves Washington A patriotic fevor, re-Incarnating re-Incarnating the spirit of '76 gripped the American people just a decade ago the nation was moving rapidly into the great war. Wood row Wilson had summoned congress to Washington in special session; had delivered his dramatic night address asking for a declaration of hostilities and the senate sen-ate had approved the war resolution. And so it was that ten years ago the house was debating the final act to give in the early morning hours of the morrow its overwhelming verdict in favor of fighting Germany. With that action and the subsequent signing of the resolution on April 6 by President Wilson, the United States had taken the decisive step, one which, as it turned out, changed the course of history and helped remake the map or a large part of the world. Actual and potential resources which, all told, grobably never have been equalled by any other nation in the history of the world, were brought into the war under un-der the American flag. |