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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...document bearing the signatures of 460 professors of the University, Technology, Andover Theological Seminary and Episcopal Theological School, protesting against the deportation of the Belgians, has been sent to President Wilson by a committee of four University professors, G. H. Palmer '64, F. Aydelotte, W. E. Hocking '01 and H. W. Tyler...
...document was prepared before the official announcement of the government that a protest had been made to Germany was published. The committee, however, decided to send it just the same with a note of explanation concerning the priority of the petition...
...document follows...
...document was accompanied by the following note to the President...
...transmitting this letter, we wish to call your attention to the fact that the letter was prepared before it was publicly known that our government had protested to Germany. Now that such action has been taken, the force of the document will lie: first, in the evidence of the extraordinary unanimity of demand for, and approval of, this action in the bodies here represented; and second, in the urgent proposal that the action of our government be extended in the direction of consolidating as far as possible the opinion of all neutral nations in common and emphatic representations...