One thing -we have already stood for. and that is the protection of American citizens in any country in the world. Mr. "President. if we have citizens of our country residing in.foreign countries. European or Asiatic or American. not under express treaty provisions. but under the general rules and principles iivhich govern the relations which nations bear to each other. and the government of the country where they are temporarily xesident takes them by force and compels them to render :military service :in that country. to imperil their lives and undergo hardships I. think. sirand surely I profoundly hope. sirthat the Government of the United States would resent such -conduct .on the part -ofthe foreign nation andreach out its arm to protect its citizens. . .. Things.of that kind. sir. :have occurred already in our his�tory -they have occurred in Prussia. in Russia. and In Italy. espeeiallywith respect to" American naturalized -citizdns who -emigrated from those countries where the doctrine of expatriation is notirecognized. -Yet we have stood agalnst"such a I1ocedure and have opposed it. -and I think we did well tb do so. Do we propose nowto enact a law which will be thrust in -our faces- when this war is gover and some American citizen is compelled to take up arms in defense of the colors and fight the battles in a foreign land where he happensto bea resident? We may protest. but this law will be put .in our faces with the statement "You did it yourselves."
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