Woodrow Wilson Quotes

“On Wilson’s orders, 14,000 U.S. troops were now in Russia waging an undeclared war in defense of “what the Russian people themselves desire,” as he had put it, fighting in league with the White Russian resistance to the Bolshevik Red Army in northwestern Russia, and in Siberia in the Far East. Wilson’s friend Irvin Cobb, editor of the late Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, warned that “Great Britain is practically bankrupt and its economic condition is desperate.”
― Christopher Cox, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

“In Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the local newspaper proudly reported the fact that two hometown heroes from the 369th had been awarded the French War Cross for their gallantry under fire. The newspaper suggested that the “Germans will have to find as apt a name for the American Negro fighters as they have given to the Scots,” who were nicknamed the “Laddies from Hell.” Soon the Germans did come up with a name. The U.S. regiment would be known forever after as the “Harlem Hellfighters.” At the war’s end, France would award the entire unit the Croix de Guerre.”
― Christopher Cox, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn

“awarded the French War Cross for their gallantry under fire. The newspaper suggested that the “Germans will have to find as apt a name for the American Negro fighters as they have given to the Scots,” who were nicknamed the “Laddies from Hell.” Soon the Germans did come up with a name. The U.S. regiment would be known forever after as the “Harlem Hellfighters.” At the war’s end, France would award the entire unit the Croix de Guerre.”
― Christopher Cox, Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn