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The resolute president

Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
The resolute president
The resolute president
The resolute president
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Item no
33013
Title
The resolute president
Description
"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 ....'
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Date
1916
Size
31 x 25.5 cm.
Location
Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.