Nepal, May 28 -- Even though maps represent a nation, it is ultimately the people that make a nation.

When it was decided that the United States would join the First World War, President Woodrow Wilson promised the world would be "made safe for democracy". Having been reelected in 1916 with the campaign slogan "He kept us out of war", this decision marked a reversal of the initial position of 'neutrality' adopted by America in 1914. But it wasn't just Wilson who had a change of heart; the entire country witnessed a shift in public opinion. The sinking of the Lusitania, the revelation made by the Zimmermann Telegraph, in culmination with other factors, suggested imminent danger to the sovereignty of United States, and in response, Preside...