Sharp opposition arose yesterday to the requisite resolution in the Senate under the leadership of Senators La Follette and Stone and a few cranky Western radicals. Senator La Follette, who, besides being of pacifist tendencies, represents Wisconsin, where the German vote is strong, had all along been expected to take advantage of the privilege of unlimited debate in order to try to kill the resolution.
Times Correspondent
Washington, March 4, 1917.
Germany: "We have turned the richest lands of France into a gigantic region of Death."
Christ: "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto me."
Our retreat from the old positions on the Ancre and the Somme has nullified the projected great Anglo-French spring offensive against our center on the Western front.