SENATE APPROVES BREAKING OFF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH GERMANY
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On February 7, 1917, the United States Senate passed a resolution endorsing President Woodrow's Wilson's action of February 3rd breaking off diplomatic relations with Germany.
The New York Times refers to Mr. Wilson's action as "the most important...he has undertaken."
The Senate resolution reads...
"Whereas the President has...severed diplomatic relations with the Imperial German Government by the recall of the American Ambassador at Berlin and by handing his passport to the German Ambassador at Washington and...
Whereas the President said...if...further action (be required) he would submit the matter to Congress and ask for authority...to use such means as might deem necessary for the protection of America...
Therefore be it resolved that the Senate approve the action taken by the President..."
JFK+50 NOTE
On February 6, 1962, JFK accepted President Wilson's typewriter which had been issued by the government and subsequently came into the hands of the Grayson family.
President Kennedy said that "It was on this typewriter (Wilson) typed his Fourteen Points" and he thanked the Grayson family for agreeing to "have it come to the White House."
At the end of his remarks, JFK quipped...
"My wife (Jacqueline) has collected everything and this is...the only thing I have produced."
SOURCES
"Relations with Germany Broken Off," The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/
"Remarks At The Presentation To The White House Of Woodrow Wilson's Typewriter, 6 February 1962, www.jfklibrary.org/
"Senate Resolution of February 7, 1917," Congressional Record, February 7, 1917, www.lib.byu.edu/
