aug 14, 1914 - "AMERICAN NEUTRALITY - At the Opening of the War and for Some Time Afterward, Public Opinion Was Divided on the Issues at Stake" Harper's pictorial library of the world war pg. 309

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A vote taken among 367 newspapers throughout the United States in November of 1914 found just 105 pro-Ally and 20 pro-German papers, with the vast majority—242 of them—remaining firmly neutral and recommending that Uncle Sam stay out of the conflict.

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