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The resolute president
Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
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Title
The resolute president
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"President Wilson: 'If they give another black eye I'll do something.' Mr. Bryan. ' My dear Wilson, why complain, your eye is not black, it's only purple.'"
'Mr. Bryan, the pacifist Secretary of State in the American Cabinet, resigned on 8 June 1915, not concurring in President Wilson's Note (11 June 1915) which demanded guarantees from the German Government respecting the rights of "American ship-masters or American citizens bound on their lawful errands as passengers in merchant ships of belligerent nationality." President Wilson, who on 11 May had declared that "there is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight," began to change his tone when several American steamers were subsequently torpedoed without warning by German submarines. The controversy between America and Germany concerning the latter's violation of international law was carried on for eight months ....'
Artist / maker
Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1916
Size
31 x 25.5 cm.
Type
Chromolithograph
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
The
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
have published a book of his works entitled, 'Louis Raemaekers - with pen and pencil as a weapon'.
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