...specifically asked its approval of the use of " the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such extent as may be necessary to obtain from General...recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States." The President expressed the hope that this country would not be forced into a war with the Mexican...

...United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerto and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, and end the distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico." In 1915, at the request of President...

...refused, and I have come to ask your approval and support in the course I now purpose to pursue. * * * I, therefore, come to ask your approval that I should...recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States. * * * "There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement. We seek to...

...situation was so grave that Wilson appealed on April 2Oth to the Congress for leave to employ "the armed forces of the United States in such ways and...distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico." ll THE NEW LIBERALISM True to form in his treatment of broad questions the President supplemented this...

...with the request for approval to "use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such extent as may be necessary to obtain from General...recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States. " The President did not even wait for the consent of Congress.1 Shortly after midnight of April 21...

...*'armed forces of the United States to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from Getieral Huerta the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States" passed, April 20: «clzuri- of Vera Cruz by US war vessels, April 21 ; Volunteer Army Bill passed,...

...asked the approval of Congress toward his intended course in using the armed forces of the country "in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary...recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States." i6 4 The sanction of Congress was given by a large majority of both houses. 165 Before the armada from...

...asked the approval of Congress toward his intended course in using the armed forces of the country " in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary...recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States." ™4 The sanction of Congress was given by a large majority of both houses.168 Before the armada from...

...forces of » the United States "in such ways and to such an extent as might be necessary to obtain from Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States." 21 Even before receiving the acquiescence of Congress to such an act, Wilson took steps which by April...

...United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerto and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and dignity of the United States, and end the distressing conditions now unhappily obtaining in Mexico. In 1915, at the request of President...