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before the election which returned Wilson to the White House in 1916 

‘because he kept us out of war’, Col. House negotiated a secret 

agreement with England and France on behalf of Wilson which 

pledged the United States to intervene on behalf of the Allies. On 

March 9, 1916, Wilson formally sanctioned the undertaking.76

Nothing could more forcefully illustrate the duplicity of Woodrow 

Wilson’s nature than his nationwide campaign on the slogan, "He kept 

us out of war", when he had pledged ten months earlier to involve us in 

the war on the side of England and France. This explains why he was 

regarded with such contempt by those who learned the facts of his 

career. H.L. Mencken wrote that Wilson was "the perfect model of the 

Christian cad", and that we ought "to dig up his bones and make dice 

of them."

According to The New York Times, Paul Warburg’s letter of resignation 

stated that some objection had been made because he had a 

brother in the Swiss Secret Service. The New York Times has never 

corrected this blatant falsehood, perhaps because Kuhn, Loeb 

Company owned a controlling interest in its stock. Max Warburg was 

not Swiss, and although he had probably come into contact with the 

Swiss  Secret  Service  during  his  term  of  office  as  head  of  the  German 

Secret Service, no responsible editor at The New York Times could have 

been unaware of the fact that Max Warburg was German, and that 

his family banking house was in Hamburg, and that he held a number 

of high positions in the German Government. He represented Germany 

at the Versailles Peace Conference, and remained peacefully in 

Germany until 1939, during a period when persons of his religion were 

being persecuted. To avoid injury during the approaching war, when