• William Jennings Bryan (1860–1925), the Democratic Party's standard bearer in three presidential elections, served as Secretary of State for the first two years of the Wilson administration. Bryan expressed reservations about the YMCA's prisoner-of-war diplomacy due to his concerns regarding the maintenance of American neutrality. Source: Current History Magazine, 2 (July 1915): 788C.

Source: Current History Magazine, 2 (July 1915): 788C.

From Pursuit of an "unparalleled opportunity": American YMCA and prisoner of war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923 by Kenneth Steuer

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