President Wilson delivered a curtain lecture to Americans and bade them be neutralneutral in thought. neutral in deed. He himself soon became one of the most active of partisans in his desire to injure Germany and her allies and to help England and hers. When the Litsitaitia sankblown up without warning. with the loss of more than 100 American livesPresident Wilson extolled the virtues and merits of the man and the nation "too proud to fight." In the next breath we hear of him manifesting his purpose by words to hold Germany to a "strict accountability." President Wilson condemned in his writings undesirable immigration. He said it was a "coarse crew" that was landing on our shores from southern Italy. But when he had an opportunity to doso he vetoed the bill which would have prevented it.
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Immigrants from southern Italy are described as a "coarse crew".