Calculated to create prejudice and misgiving against the American note and to mislead foreign opinion.
From The St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Mr. Bryan could have found no better way of causing the President embarrassment at this crisis.
From The Minneapolis Tribune.
President Wilson has had his own way in State Department affairs, to the minimization of Secretary Bryan, almost at times to the point of humiliation.
From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
A pacifist temporarily bereft of reason and lost to sense of patriotic duty; a misplaced figurehead.
From The Portland Oregonian.
The archpriest of the peace-at-any-price party ... a poor staff to lean upon.
From The Albany Knickerbocker-Press.